A Critique of " Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration… Using the Focus Model " (dungan, Fang and Gunderson, 2010)
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This paper by Peter Dungan, Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson, which was supported by grants from Metropolis and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, uses the FOCUS macroeconomic model of the University of Toronto to estimate the impact of a 100,000 per year increase in immigration over a ten-year period starting in 2012. The methodology relies on microeconomic information, much of which is dated, from earlier studies of the impact of immigration in Canada and other countries to gauge the microeconomic impact that is used to shock the various exogenous variables and equations of the model.
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Macroeconomic Impacts of Canadian Immigration: an Empirical Analysis Using the Focus Model
Financial support from a National Metropolis Research Competition grant and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council is gratefully acknowledged as are comments from three presentations: CERIS Public Seminar in Toronto on October 22, 2010 and our discussant Mikal Skuterud; Citizenship and Immigration Canada Research Network meeting in Ottawa on October 26, 2010; and the Conference on ...
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