| dc.contributor.author | Boateng, Kwabia. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:04Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1993 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1993 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN93632 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55375 | |
| dc.description | Research on the economic performance of immigrants relative to the native-born population since 1978 has revolved around Chiswick's immigrant selectivity hypothesis, which argues that immigrants generally possess "superior motivation, initiative and drive". However, most of the studies on the subject have focused on earnings without much meaningful attempt to apply the hypothesis within the context of labour supply. | en_US |
| dc.description | The purpose of this dissertation is to analyze the differences in labour supply between immigrant and Canadian-born populations, looking at both total labour supply and the effect of underemployment constraints, and moonlighting activity. We estimated labour supply functions based on weekly hours and annual hours in 1987 using Heckman's two-step regression procedure for correcting selectivity biases due to participation and underemployment. The regression results were then utilised for a Blinder-Oaxaca type decomposition analysis of the hours differences, in the light of the immigrant selectivity hypothesis. | en_US |
| dc.description | We found that there is no significant difference in the structure of the labour supply functions, with respect to the intercept and wage coefficients, and that the difference in the means of weekly and annual hours is explained fully by the differences in the means of the demographic characteristics included in the estimation equations. | en_US |
| dc.description | The analyses of moonlighting behaviour also revealed that hours worked at the primary job were a strong factor in determining who moonlights. | en_US |
| dc.description | In general the dissertation underlined the importance of labour market constraints in analyzing the differences in the labour supply and moonlighting behaviour between groups of individuals. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1993. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economics, Labor. | en_US |
| dc.title | A comparative analysis of labour supply behaviour among the immigrant and the Canadian-born population in the light of the immigrant selectivity hypothesis. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
