An Auction Model of Canadian Temporary Immigration for the 21 st Century

Bibliographic Data

ID9955305
AuthorsDon J Devoretz (Simon Fraser University, corresponding author), Don Devoretz
Year2008
Volume46
Issue1
Pages3-17
Publication date2008-02-05
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Migration (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7985 • E-ISSN: 1468-2435
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/j.1468-2435.2008.00434.x
OpenAlexW3121260456
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited2

Temporary Canadian immigration has grown beyond traditional programs for students, caregivers and agricultural workers to include trade‐related temporary visas under NAFTA and the GATS. Current Canadian debates envision supplanting Canada's permanent immigration programme with a temporary visa programme to remove skill shortages. Several questions emerge under these temporary schemes including who should choose the number of temporary immigrants and under what employment conditions. This paper offers an alternative policy to the current government‐determined quota on temporary visas to answer these two questions. Under the proposed scheme offered in this paper, a Canadian worker can place a job voucher up for auction on the Internet. If the Canadian worker finds an acceptable offer for his one‐year (or less) voucher, then the temporary immigrant is permitted to seek a job in Canada. Thus, under this auction scheme Canadian workers are compensated for the presence of temporary immigrants, and the actual number of temporary immigrants admitted depends on the total number of Canadian workers who sell their vouchers, not on a government fat

Business · Demographic economics · Economic shortage · Economics · Government (linguistics · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · The Internet · Voucher · Employment and Welfare Studies · Law · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Taxation and Compliance Studies

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