We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … average immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …

Quebec, but only by 10 points Canada-wide, largely because the wages of Quebec Anglophones fell by 15 points relative to …

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of …

, from other jurisdictions. This omission is particularly disturbing in the case of Canada, which now has some of the most … occupational gender segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. The sample period precedes many provincial pay equity … penalties in female jobs in Canada are generally much smaller than the estimates for the United States. Although there is some …

This paper measures and compares the relative earnings of French and English speakers in Canada, and of Spanish and … English speakers in the U.S., in the 1970s and 1980s. In Canada, the earnings gap between French and English speakers narrowed … gap between French and English speakers in Canada could be accounted for by differences in annual hours worked, marital …

United Kingdom and Canada: both countries experienced similar slowdowns in the rate of growth of educational attainment …

Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's …

Wages for more- and less-educated workers have followed strikingly different paths in the U.S. and Canada. During the … fell slightly in Canada. Katz and Murphy (1992) found that for the U.S. a simple supply-demand model fit the pattern of ….S. and Canada. In both instances, the relative demand for more-educated labor shifts out at the same, consistent rate. Both …

, although the wage catch-up is not complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in … quality of immigrants' labor market skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a … that the variance of immigrant earnings increases with their duration of stay in Canada, and since there are no …