Immigration Policy, Internal Migration and Natural Resource Shocks

A report by Michel Beine, ([michelbeine.be], University of Luxembourg), Robin Boadway, ([queensu.ca], Queen's University, Canada), and Serge Coulombe ([uottawa.ca], University of Ottawa, Canada) for the C.D. Howe institute [cdhowe.org] in Canada,

Moving Parts: Immigration Policy, Internal Migration and Natural Resource Shocks

Recent changes to Canadian immigration policy, including the Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) Program, are positive overall, but they could have negative consequences that need addressing, according to a new C.D. Howe Institute report. In “Moving Parts: Immigration Policy, Internal Migration and Natural Resource Shocks,” authors Michel Beine, Robin W. Boadway and Serge Coulombe note that changes to the TFW Program have limited the kinds of workers companies can bring in, made the applications more rigorous, and set an employer-specific cap on the use of TFWs.

Report available here [cdhowe.org], and is partly based on earlier research by the two of the authors and yours truly on the effect of migration and resources in Canada, published recently in Economic Journal (here, [wiley.com])