Analytical Studies Branch research paper series
Explaining the Deteriorating Entry Earnings of Canada’s Immigrant
By Abdurrahman Aydemir and Mikal Skuterud
Family and Labour Studies Division
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The study explores causes of the deterioration in entry earnings of Canadian immigrant cohorts by estimating an empirical specification that nests a number of competing explanations found in the Canadian literature. To do this, we use the pooled sample of Canadian-born and immigrant men employed full-year, full-time from the complete 20 percent samples of the 1981, 1986, 1991, 1996 and 2001 Canadian Censuses. Our results indicate that no more than one-third of the deterioration can be explained by compositional shifts in the knowledge of an official language, mother tongue and region of origin of recent immigrant cohorts. – NON EUROPEAN WORK EXPERIENCE NOT VALUED
