INSTITUTIONAL FEATURES OF IMMIGRANT ABSORPTION-ISRAEL AND CANADA
In this study we adopt an institutional approach to the study of immigrant integration. We aim to explain differences between immigrants residing in Canada and Israel with respect to labor market participation and attainment in terms of the institutionally relevant characteristics of the two societies (see Tilly, 1994; Reitz, 1998). This is not to say that we disregard the attributes of the immigrants themselves. Rather, by focusing on immigrants from one origin we eliminate much of the social and cultural variation associated with international migration, and we highlight the way in which such individual attributes as gender, age and human capital of immigrants interact with the particular institutional arrangement in each of the two societies.



Richard A. Wanner University of Calgary



Copyright Center for Migration Studies Summer 2003



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