Regulated Health Professions

Outcomes by Place of Birth and Training

Bibliographic Data

ID11968829
AuthorsYaw Owusu (0000-0002-1793-3152, McMaster University, corresponding author), Arthur Sweetman (0000-0001-8726-7557, Department of Economics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, and IZA, Bonn, Germany)
Year2015
Volume41
IssueSupplement 1
PagesS98-S115
Publication date2015-08-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian Public Policy (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917
PublisherUniversity of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.3138/cpp.2015-008
OpenAlexW1648612133
LanguageEN
Citations received6
References cited14

Do foreign birth and/or the possession of foreign academic credentials affect integration into Canadian regulated health occupations? While there are a few important commonalities across the eight occupations studied, especially that the foreign born, foreign trained are less likely to work in their trained profession, there are a number of differences. Broad-based policies will, therefore, have occupation-specific impacts. Among those actually working in their trained field, place of study/birth earnings gaps are frequently not statistically different from zero and, when non-zero, are negative for some occupations and positive for others. For workers who surmount the regulatory/employment hurdles, there is no evidence of sector-wide systematic earnings penalties to foreign birth/training although such effects may exist in selected occupations

Affect (linguistics · Business · Demographic economics · Earnings · Economics · Environmental health · Foreign born · Geography · Immigration · Labour economics · Place of birth · Political science · Population · Possession (linguistics · Training (meteorology · Work (physics · Global Health Workforce Issues · Healthcare Policy and Management · Law · Medicine · Occupational and Professional Licensing Regulation · Psychology · Accounting

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