The Purvis Prize Reception
Thursday September 27, 2012 Toronto Purvis Prize Reception
The C.D. Howe Institute’s groundbreaking study of immigration policy reform has won the 2012 Doug Purvis Memorial Prize. The Canadian Economics Association announced that Toward Improving Canada’s Skilled Immigration Policy: An Evaluation Approach by Charles M. Beach, Alan G. Green and Christopher Worswick won the prize.
The Doug Purvis Prize is awarded annually to the authors of a highly significant, written contribution to Canadian economic policy. The award was established in 1994 in honour and memory of noted Canadian economist Doug Purvis.
This marks the fifth time that a C.D. Howe Institute publication has won the Purvis Prize – fully one-quarter of the awards bestowed to date. Toward Improving Canada’s Skilled Immigration Policy was also shortlisted for this year’s Donner Book Prize.
Charles Beach is a Professor of Economics at Queen’s University and Christopher Worswick is a Professor of Economics at Carleton University: both are Research Fellows at the C.D. Howe Institute. Alan G. Green, who died before the book was completed, was a Professor Emeritus of Economics at Queen’s University.
The book, published by the C.D. Howe Institute in October 2011, assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the current point system used to screen new arrivals, identifies the policy levers that affect the attributes and success rates of new arrivals, and shows how changing various criteria would likely affect immigrant earnings.
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