The Economic Impact on Canada of Immigration

Patrick Grady

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Abstract: This paper presents the simplest supply-and-demand textbook model of how immigration works in a market economy (Borjas, 1999, pp.89-93). While it may be oversimplified in that it assumes that all labour is homogeneous and that machinery and equipment, land, and other productive resources are fixed and that it ignores any dynamic impact of immigration, it is a good starting point for an analysis of the economic impacts of immigration in Canada. Using this model with parameters taken from the literature, the immigration surplus for Canada, which represents an estimate of the cumulative economic benefits of immigration, can be calculated to have been 0.33 per cent of GDP in 2001 or $3,594 million (Table 1). The most striking thing about this estimate is that it is not very large in macroeconomic terms, especially when contrasted with the large redistribution of income that results from immigration.

Keywords: economic impact of immigration; immigration surplus (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J60 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-01-11
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