human capital immigrants bring and their post-migration schooling and work decisions, our findings suggest the predominance …

to a one percentage point increase in the ratio of immigrants over native workers. While many studies in our sample …

We use longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records to estimate the earnings growth of immigrants from … three entering cohorts since the early 1980s. Selective attrition by low-earning immigrants might result in lower earnings … find that it is not. We show that while low-earnings immigrants are more likely to leave the cross-sectional samples over …

In this paper, we show that the decline in the relative wages of immigrants in Canada is far from homogenous over … country of origin of immigrants. Interestingly, the most important source of change in the wages of immigrants relative to the …, and thus, in the wages, of Canadian born workers relative to immigrants. …

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of … immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was …

There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar … immigrants may provide “complementary†skills, which can raise the productivity of other workers. If the substitution argument …

labour market does not provide as many good opportunities to immigrants than to native born. Indeed, previous studies have … found that not only do new immigrants in Canada earn less than native-born workers, but this entry-earning disadvantage has … rates. Since Canada has a point system that targets skilled immigrants to reduce the labor shortages in specific markets, it …

’ of the decline in native-born employment following a 1 percent increase in the number of immigrants is a mere 0 …

investigate why Canadian immigrants struggle in the labor market. The findings suggested significant discrimination by name … discrimination occurs -- that is, whether this discrimination can be attributed to underlying concerns about worker productivity or … earlier findings from Oreopoulos (2009) for Toronto in better economic circumstances. If name-based discrimination arises from …