Author(s): Feng Hou
Journal: Canadian Studies in Population
ISSN 0380-1489
Volume: 40;
Issue: 3-4;
Start page: 149;
Date: 2013;
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Keywords: Immigrants | entry earnings | decomposition | Canada
ABSTRACT
This study examines whether factors associated with the rise in the Canadian-born – recent immigrant earnings gap played different roles in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. The results show that for recent immigrant men, shifts in population characteristics had the most important effect in the 1980s, when the earnings gap expanded the most, but this compositional effect diminished in the 1990s and early 2000s. The effect of changes in returns to Canadian experience and education was small for men in all three periods. During the early 2000s, the IT bust, combined with a heavy concentration of immigrants in IT-related occupations, was the primary explanation of the increase in their earnings gap.
Journal: Canadian Studies in Population
ISSN 0380-1489
Volume: 40;
Issue: 3-4;
Start page: 149;
Date: 2013;
VIEW PDF
DOWNLOAD PDF Original pageKeywords: Immigrants | entry earnings | decomposition | Canada
ABSTRACT
This study examines whether factors associated with the rise in the Canadian-born – recent immigrant earnings gap played different roles in the 1980s, 1990s, and early 2000s. The results show that for recent immigrant men, shifts in population characteristics had the most important effect in the 1980s, when the earnings gap expanded the most, but this compositional effect diminished in the 1990s and early 2000s. The effect of changes in returns to Canadian experience and education was small for men in all three periods. During the early 2000s, the IT bust, combined with a heavy concentration of immigrants in IT-related occupations, was the primary explanation of the increase in their earnings gap.
