A l'aide des donnees de recensement de 1980 a 2000, on examine quelles seraient les conditions necessaires pour que les cohortes de nouveaux immigrants parviennent a la parite de gains avec les travailleurs nes au Canada. Selon les resultats, il faudrait que les gains des nouveaux immigrants...

Using Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Worker File, we document short-term and long-term earnings losses for a large (10%) sample of Canadian workers who lost their job through firm closures or mass layoffs during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Our use of a nationally representative sample allows...

Using census data covering the 1980 to 2000 period, we examine what outcomes would be necessary for cohorts of recent immigrants to achieve earnings parity with Canadian-born workers. Our results show that today's recent immigrants would have to experience a drastic rise of their relative...

Le secteur de la technologie de pointe a ete l'une des principales sources de la reprise economique au Canada a la fin des annees 1990. Il est bien connu que le vent a tourne soudainement en 2001, lorsque la tendance ascendante de l'emploi et des gains dans ce secteur s'est brusquement...

En utilisant le Fichier de donnees longitudinales sur la main d'oeuvre de Statistique Canada, nous examinons les pertes de gains a court et a long terme concernant un important echantillon (10 %) de travailleurs canadiens qui ont perdu leur emploi en raison de la fermeture d'une entreprise ou...

Many studies have examined the relative success of immigrant men in the (primarily paid) workforce. Despite the fact that they represent approximately one-sixth of the immigrant workforce, self-employed immigrants are a relatively understudied group. This study uses the 1981, 1986, 1991, and...

De nombreuses etudes ont traite du succes relatif des hommes immigrants au sein de la main-d'oeuvre salariee. Meme s'ils representent environ le sixieme de la main-d'oeuvre immigrante, les travailleurs autonomes immigrants constituent un groupe relativement peu etudie. Les donnees de cette etude...

The high-tech sector was a major driving force behind the Canadian economic recovery of the late 1990s. It is well known that the tide began to turn quite suddenly in 2001 when sector-wide employment and earnings halted this upward trend, despite continued gains in the rest of the economy. As...