The Performance of Immigrants in the Canadian Labor Market

In this article we examine the economic assimilation of immigrants to Canada. We provide new evidence on immigrants who arrived in the 1970s and document an increase in the dispersion of labor market outcomes across immigrants of different vintages over time. Our results confirm U.S. evidence of &qu...

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Published in:Journal of labor economics 1994-07, Vol.12 (3), p.369-405
Main Authors: Baker, Michael, Benjamin, Dwayne
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Analytical estimating
Assimilation
Canada
Censuses
Cultural assimilation
Datasets
Earnings trends
Economic theory
Economics
Estimation bias
Human capital
Immigrants
Immigration
Inference
Labor force
Labor market
Labor markets
Labour market
Migrant workers
Music analysis
Noncitizens
Regression coefficients
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Summary:In this article we examine the economic assimilation of immigrants to Canada. We provide new evidence on immigrants who arrived in the 1970s and document an increase in the dispersion of labor market outcomes across immigrants of different vintages over time. Our results confirm U.S. evidence of "permanent" differences across immigrant cohorts. What distinguishes the Canadian experience is small or negative rates of assimilation for most cohorts over the sample period. Finally, we test the overidentification of the assimilation process specified in previous studies and fail to reject the usual cohort fixed-effect specification.
ISSN:0734-306X
1537-5307
DOI:10.1086/298349