I M M I G R A T I O N   &    L A B O U R    P O L I C Y

Immigration and Labour is a new area of research for AIMS. It seeks to examine policy options in response to the demographic challenges facing the region from a market-oriented and pro-growth immigration strategy. The One Nova Scotia report indicated that attracting and retaining inter-provincial and international immigrants is essential to population growth to increase the number of entrepreneurs, and to renew the labour force. We believe that the analysis of the One Nova Scotia commission applies to the rest of the region.

Labour market performance is a key determinant of prosperity. Smart labour market policies can reduce the prevalence and depth of poverty while helping to drive economic growth. Among the most important labour market challenges facing the Atlantic region is an aging population. Currently, the region has consistently low participation rates. AIMS wishes to respond to the issues of labour and immigration, in a formative way, by increasing its research efforts and focus on these two areas.

POLICY PAPERS & OP-ED COMMENTARIES

 

Go East Go West

Determining what role Halifax might play in the development of new east-west shipping routes is a complex challenge given the myriad internal and external factors involved in shippers’ decisions. Shippers choose a port for its competitiveness with respect to the internal factors of freight costs, transit time, and frequency; and ...
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/ / Atlantica, International Affairs, Policy Papers

The Developing Workforce Problem:

There may yet be a silver lining to the current economic turmoil. It buys us time to deal with the increasingly critical labour shortage. In The Developing Workforce Problem: Confronting Canadian Labour Shortages in the Coming Decades, published today by the Atlantic Institute for Market Studies (AIMS), Dalhousie University Professor ...
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/ / Labour Market, Policy Papers

Give a Plum for a Peach

Atlantic Canada needs to offer a better deal to immigrants if we want immigrants to make a larger contribution here. In AIMS’ latest paper, Give a Plum for a Peach: Chinese Business Immigration to Atlantic Canada, author John Huang takes a specific look at what needs to be done to ...
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/ / Atlantica, Economic Development, Labour Market, Policy Papers

The Jones Act under NAFTA

This week Irving Shipbuilding announced it won the contract to build one, possibly two, small cruise ships for American Cruise Lines (ACL). It is a rare piece of good news for the beleaguered, but once prosperous, Canadian shipbuilding industry. There was a time when Canada was considered one of the ...
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/ / Atlantica, International Affairs, Policy Papers
MEDIA MENTIONS

 

Atlantic premiers, Ottawa announce pilot project to boost immigration

In a Globe and Mail story by Jane Taber, Marco Navarro-Génie says, "More people alone can’t fix the economy, especially when we can’t retain the people that we do bring." ...
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Fish products and temporary foreign workers

In a Radio-Canada piece about temporary foreign workers, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie says, "We must first address the question of local workers ... whom have not been attracted to employment." ...
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NSGEU delaying civil service contract vote, again

AIMS Development Director Michael Kydd appears on Global News, discussing negotiations between the Nova Scotia Government and its General Employees Union. See the full story here ...
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NE lawmakers propose seceding from Eastern Time

In the Cape Cod Times, AIMS President Marco Navarro-Génie is quoted in a story about the advantages of the Atlantic time zone. He argues that "In the age of high-volume ...
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