The Economics of Immigration: Canadian Immigration from an Historical Perspective

This issue of my blog was co-written by Michaelle Tuz-Atkinson, my wife and partner in our joint Substack newsletter titled <a href="https://rideon.substack.com/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ride On: The Drive for Better Transportation Systems</a>. She has undergraduate degrees in Sociology/Anthropology and Psychology, as well as a Master’s degree in Health Sciences, so her expertise in these areas was very helpful. In <a href="https://drrock.medium.com/the-economics-of-immigration-theoretical-underpinnings-877871ec7547" rel="noopener">Wednesday’s</a> of this blog, the basic economic theory of immigration was explained, along with some extensions to that theory to make it more realistic. In that post, I explained that people emigrate from their home countries due to factors that “push” them away from their home countries (e.g., war, poverty, crimes against humanity), as well as factors that “pull” them into their destination countries (e.g., higher standards of living, more religious and political freedoms). Countries like Canada, the U.S., and Australia are traditional immigrant countries because we have some of the best “pull” factors. <a href="https://drrock.medium.com/the-economics-of-immigration-canadian-immigration-from-an-historical-perspective-b8b755142bb9">Learn More</a>