Canadian attitudes towards immigration

In recent years, attempts have been made, somewhat problematically, by the federal government to increase the number of economic and business class immigrants and decrease the number of family and refugee class immigrants. [...] MBC: Canadian Attitudes Towards Immigration the relAtIonshIp between context And AttItudes towArds ImmIgrAtIon Much of the literature on attitudes towards immigration policy relies on survey questions that ask respondents if they would like to see levels of immigration increased, decreased, or stabilized. Researchers then assess which personal characteristics of the respondents are related to the [...] According to economic com- petition models, the presence of immigrants is believed to displace native workers (due to the willingness of the former to work for lower wages), and this threatens native workers. [...] Table 2 presents the percentage of respondents who want levels of immigration to decrease, stay the same, and increase, for each of the variables included in our study. [...] For example, this would mean that the size and significance level of the logits for union membership (and all other variables) are the same whether one wants less, the same, or more immigration (called the proportional odds assumption).