to Canada since the 1990s, has not led to a large improvement in immigrant earnings as may have been expected given the …

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 … education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided with cross cohort declines in cognitive …

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 … growth with years since migration in longitudinal data compared to repeated cross-sections. Existing studies on U.S. data …

significant deterioration in entry earnings during the 1980s. This paper asks whether these change in immigrant selection … contributed positively to immigrant entry earnings during the 1990s. Moving to the 2000s, the paper asks whether, after almost two … decades of deterioration, the entry earnings of immigrants improved early in the decade, and if not, why not. We find that …

Goldmann (Carleton University) examine the implications of human capital portability for new immigrants to Canada for earnings …

potential to produce positive productivity spillovers for their native-born coworkers. This evidence points clearly to the …