Immigrants – Zero Affect on Economy

A Canadian Customs and Immigration service sign

Not a viable solution!

By Patrick Grady

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This paper reviews some of the key facts about productivity. And it notes that immigration is never mentioned as a factor tending to depress productivity. It then goes on to apply the methodology of growth accounting to calculate an estimate of the impact of recent immigration on productivity. This in turn calls into question the wisdom of the Government’s immigration policies as part of any evidenced-based strategy to improve the living standards of Canadians.

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Productivity growth in Canada has increasingly been falling behind that in the United States. While GDP per worker in current US dollars is not the best measure of productivity as it incorporates inflation as well as real increase in output, it is often used for purposes of comparison. By this measure, the productivity gap between Canada and the United States, after remaining relatively stable for decades up to 1983, began to rise significantly thereafter with the increase accelerating after 2000.

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In spite of all the recent attention on Canada’s relatively slow productivity growth, the important issue of the implications of the poor labour market performance of recent cohorts of immigrants for productivity growth has yet to be analyzed and quantified as a possible factor.

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The 2006 census data revealing the poor labour market performance of recent cohorts of immigrants are cause for concern, especially when combined with the continued high level of immigration after 2005, which is planned to persist indefinitely in the future. Growth accounting suggests that immigration will continue to have a large and growing negative impact on labour productivity, which will only cease when the immigrants that are selected and admitted are able to earn at least as much as non-immigrants.

Given that the largest proportion of immigrants are NOT selected based on their skills, but rather are dependents of economic class immigrants, family class immigrants or refugees, it doesn’t appear likely that new immigrants will earn as much on average as non-immigrants in the foreseeable future. Thus immigration can be expected to exert a continued depressing effect on productivity.

As an aside, it will unfortunately no longer be possible to monitor the impact of immigration on productivity using the census as the data on the earnings of immigrants utilized in this paper comes from the census long form which is being eliminated in the 2011 census.

But, at least for the present, the data from the 2006 census provides a clear indication that from an economic point of view Canada’s immigration program has lowered productivity growth and has contributed significantly to the growing productivity gap with the United States.

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The fly in the ointment is that only 17% of immigrants are actually selected under the skilled worker program, and that they bring with them or sponsor family members who do not have the same level of skills, and who usually perform worse in the labour market.

To actually increase productivity, immigrants have to be more productive than existing workers in Canada, which, given that earnings reflect productivity, means that they must earn more than existing workers. If the Government were to only admit such immigrants, it could justifiably claim that immigration policy was productivity enhancing.

However, since there is no indication that the Government only intends to admit immigrants likely to achieve a higher than average level of earnings, there is no way that the government’s proposed immigration policy can conceivably be portrayed as helping to lower the Canada-U.S. labour productivity gap.

A Final Word

Don’t believe anyone when they tell you that immigration is raising productivity, or that it is likely to reduce the Canada-U.S. productivity gap. A careful analysis of the data using the standard analytical tool of growth accounting in the most simple and straightforward way possible, shows that this just isn’t true. As the American humorist who called himself Artemus Ward said, “It ain’t so much the things we don’t know that get us in trouble. It’s the things we know that ain’t so”. >to Full Article

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Canadian Immigration Policy Reform

Mass Immigration’s Negative Effects

….and

Duped By Multiculturalism

Score Card: Immigrants 1, Canadians 0

JAPAN Simply Rejects Mass Immigration

U.S. Whites Outnumbered In 40 yrs.

[What’s the percentage (%) of WHITE people on Earth?  Answer.]

WHITES in America will be outnumbered by 2050 by rising numbers of ethnic minorities, according to official figures.

Hispanic, black and Asian people accounted for 90% of all births in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. [Some parts of Britain, too!]

In 40 years’ time they will make up more than half the population due to their higher birth rates and immigration.

[Add six (6) MORE NON-white babies to this photo to illustrate the 9 out of 10 NON-white births occurring in the United States........ and, only during the past ten years!]

Birth rates: Hispanic, black and Asian people accounted for 90 per cent of all births in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. Picture posed by modelsBirth rates: Hispanic, black and Asian people accounted for 90 per cent of all births in the U.S. between 2000 and 2010. (Picture posed by models.)
 

In ten statesMississippi, Georgia, Maryland, Florida, Arizona, Nevada, Texas, California, New Mexico and Hawaiimore than one-half of children are ALREADY non-white.

The figures come from the U.S. Census Bureau, which last year carried out its first survey of America in a decade.

It found that in 2010, whites were still the nation’s largest group, comprising 64% of the population…. reduced from 69 per cent in 2000.

Hispanics grew from 13% to 16% of the U.S. population, and were the second largest group…. whilst blacks remained stable at around 12%.

The Hispanic population surpassed the 50 million mark after adding 15 million to their numbers.

‘This is a group that’s young, whose growth is driven increasingly by births and not immigration,’ said D’Vera Cohn, of the Pew Research Center, which has analysed data from the census. -Source

Source: United Nations, World Population Prospects: The 2006 Revision (2007).

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100,000,000 NON-Whites In U.S.A.

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“A Racial Program for the 20th Century”

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Closer To The Edge

Race, Crime & Media

Destroying OUR British Nation

Racial Diversity – A CON Game

Dispossessing White Europeans

Multiculturalism – A Dividing Force

Suppression and Prejudice

Police officers police a EDL Protest

Policing an EDL Protest

“One day, millions of men will leave the Southern Hemisphere to go to the Northern Hemisphere. And they will not go there as friends. Because they will go there to conquer it. And they will conquer it with their sons. The wombs of our women will give us victory.”
- Houari Boumediene, President of Algeria, at the United Nations, 1974 .

 

By Mister Fox

This has been encouraged and facilitated by Western elites who have laws with severe penalties throughout Europe to persecute dissidents and allow Muslims to take European territory and change the culture to suit them.

Don’t forget the elites brought this about by deceit, and we did not realise what was happening until very late, but there is a resistance building in Europe as a whole, and England in particular. The Muslims know the governments and police are on their side: “You are a White man you can’t do nothing” (1)

Evil elites cover up heinous murders of innocent people, like that of Charlene Downes, if the perpetrators belong to the new-privileged groups. There is a noble and honourable demonstration in Blackpool on March 26th (2011) for justice for this abused young girl, whose case was sabotaged by the police. This is part of a new era of nobility and heroism. It is an honourable demo for posthumous justice for this young White girl who was used for sex, then allegedly chopped up, and sold in kebab meat.

Homer expressed nobility in this aphorism: “I too shall lie in the dust when I am dead, but now let me win noble renown.” The ancient Greeks placed great importance on personal honor. Man was nothing without honour. One type of Honour is won by a man’s prowess, the ability to fight and be victorious in battle. I suggest that fighting for justice for your people, and defending them from attack by rival communities, is very honourable and noble.

In the sixth book of the Aeneid, Oddysseus‘ father Anchises gives a roll call of heroes. It is their renown in battle that impresses him, and by setting examples — they inspire others.

Alan Clarke, the former Conservative Minister of State for Defence and famous diarist praised football fans who rose to the provocation by French gendarmes as “the British military spirit”. The Independent (newspaper) of 18 June 1998 reported: it was “a kind of compliment to the English martial spirit” the way other groups of supporters sought them out. (1)

To the traditional aristocratic ruling class, the EDL (English Defense League) would have been possessed of noble virtues which are now criminalized by the new elites. The great manly values like bravery, heroism, honour and glory have been downgraded to prepare us for the “lovely” new world they were building.

An intrepid crew infiltrated, and secretly filmed inside the Muslim area in Rochdale on the 5th of March. As usual, the (British) police took the side of Muslim extremists. In the video, the Muslims chant ”Allahu Akbar”, the chant used in Egypt as they burnt Christian churches. About 2 minutes in, you can hear territorial claims as Muslims chant ”English s*** off our streets”.

Note also how the police allow the Muslims to cover their faces, yet EDL supporters who wore anything over their faces had them ripped off by the police, and pushed down their tops.

The politicised police used batons and dogs on the EDL, but left the Muslims to do what they wanted. These (British) people were the backbone of our traditional military prowess, and should be honoured as heroes ready to defend our country, and control our borders to repel the current invasion, not assaulted by the police and belittled in the media. (2)

Our wounded troops are insulted in Selly Oak hospital, as well as on the streets of Wootton Bassett and Luton by a rival community, while the rulers invade their countries while not even providing the troops with adequate equipment to fight in. The elites are so evil they invade sovereign nation states belonging to Muslims, when it is none of their business, and import millions of Muslims with grudges into Europe to destroy our communities and countries. >to Full Article

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White Students Learn To “White Flight”

Cronulla riots 6

WHITE (Australian) students are fleeing public schools, leaving behind those of Aboriginal and Middle Eastern origin, a secret report by high school principals reveals.

The NSW (New South Wales) Secondary Principals Council conducted a confidential survey which raises serious concerns about “white flight” undermining the public education system and threatening social cohesion. Some teachers and principals have described it as “de facto apartheid”.

The findings are backed by research from the University of Western Sydney, which has identified evidence of racial conflict in schools in the wake of the Cronulla riots. It also suggests students of Anglo-European descent are avoiding some schools with students of mainly Asian background.

Not only have some public schools lost enrolment; they have become racially segregated. In pockets of rural and remote NSW, Aboriginal students fill public schools and white students attend Catholic and other private schools in the same town.

Around Sydney, the parents of some Anglo-European students are avoiding what they perceive as predominantly Lebanese, Muslim and Asian schools.

In New England, in towns such as Armidale, white middle-class students are flocking to Catholic and independent schools.

In their report, principals say this is so the students can “get away from their local school”.

“This is almost certainly white flight from towns in which the public school’s enrolment consists increasingly of indigenous students,” the report says. “The pattern is repeated in the Sydney region. Based on comments from principals, this most likely consists of flight to avoid Islamic students and communities.” >to Full Article

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An Australian Integrity Test

Racial Diversity – A CON Game

Australia Panders To Foreign Invaders

Australia’s “Adventure” With Multi-Culti

…and something different for our Australian readers:

Crime scene photos, mug shots and other police photos, taken
by the NSW Police from about the 1920s to early 1950s.
(Warning: Some are graphic)