The deterioration of immigrants' entry earnings in Canada in the past three decades has been well documented. This study provides further insights into the changing fortunes of immigrants by focusing on their earnings inequality and earnings instability. The analysis is based on a flexible...

We investigate how family earnings instability has evolved between the late 1980s and the late 1990s and how family income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First, among the subset of families who were intact over the...

Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an "added worker effect" for the earnings of teenagers. However, we find that among families with no...

A l'aide d'un vaste ensemble de donnees longitudinales canadiennes, nous examinons si, en reaction au licenciement que subissent les maris, les gains des femmes et des adolescents augmentent. Dans le cas des adolescents, nous ne relevons pour ainsi dire aucun indice d'un < effet de travailleur supplementaire >, mais nous constatons...</effet>

Il est question dans ce document de l'accentuation de l'ecart de gains entre les immigrants et les Canadiens de souche depuis deux decennies, et des explications actuelles de cette deterioration du marche du travail parmi les immigrants recents en particulier. Le document fait etat egalement de...

This article analyses the relationship between the quality of education that immigrants received in their home country, as measured by international test scores, and their success in the Canadian labour market.

This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: The Instability of Family Earnings and Family Income in Canada, 1986 to 1991 and 1996 to 2001. Despite its implications for family well-being, little attention has been paid to the analysis of earnings instability in the context...

On a bien decrit la degradation des gains des immigrants au Canada en debut d'emploi au cours des trois dernieres decennies. La presente etude nous renseigne en outre sur les changements de situation des immigrants en portant sur l'inegalite et l'instabilite de leurs gains. L'analyse s'appuie...

Nous etudions l'evolution de l'instabilite des gains familiaux de la fin des annees 1980 a la fin des annees 1990 et du revenu familial d'un segment a l'autre de la courbe de distribution des gains familiaux. Nous degageons quatre grands profils. Premierement, dans le sous ensemble de familles...