Changing Immigrant Characteristics and Pre-Landing Canadian Earnings
Their Effect on Entry Earnings over the 1990s and 2000s
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11967179 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Feng Hou (0000-0002-4394-2167, Social Analysis and Modelling Division, Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Ontario Department of Sociology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, corresponding author), Garnett Picot (0000-0003-3369-8727, Research and Evaluation, Citizenship and Immigration Canada and Institute for Research in Public Policy, Ottawa, Ontario) |
| Year | 2016 |
| Volume | 42 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 308-323 |
| Publication date | 2016-08-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cpp.2015-062 |
| OpenAlex | W2513052741 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 13 |
| References cited | 9 |
During the 1990s and 2000s, the characteristics of new immigrants to Canada changed significantly across several dimensions, including education, admission class, source region, and pre-landing Canadian work experience, owing at least partly to changes in immigration selection policies. This article examines whether these changes affected earnings trends among immigrants. Among all new immigrants and economic principal applicants, aside from cyclical fluctuations, entry earnings changed little over the 1990s and 2000s. This stability was the result of competing influences, some that tended to increase earnings and some that tended to reduce them. The key changes in immigrant characteristics that put upward pressure on entry earnings were the rising educational attainment in the 1990s and a large increase in the share of immigrants with high pre-landing Canadian earnings during the 2000s. The latter characteristic also accounted for the earnings advantage of provincial nominees over skilled worker immigrants. The policy implications of the results are discussed
Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Educational attainment · Immigration · Labour economics · Political science · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy · Accounting
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| Unique citing works | 13 |
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| Citations per year | 1,44 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2024 (8) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 13 |