When it comes to hot topics like immigration and gender roles in the workplace, popular rhetoric doesn’t always separate common sense from shared fallacies. Xiner Xu wants the evidence to help her make that distinction. The result of Xu’s need for evidence is two research projects that are filling in the gaps between what no one knows, and what people just think they know, about the Canadian economy and its labour market.

The first is a research paper, “Understanding Firm Responses to Immigration Shocks,” that examines how Canadian businesses responded to the arrival of a large wave of immigrants who entered the Canadian labour market between 2016 and 2018. [Read more…]