A common finding throughout the Canadian immigration literature is that, despite having high levels of education, recent immigrants endure substantial earnings disadvantages upon arrival that persist throughout their working career. This paper investigates the role of 'qualitative' education-job...

Using the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) I examine how immigrants’ foreign human capital is rewarded in the labour market. I exploit the enhanced details on education attainment, provided in the SLID, to decompose human capital variables into foreign and Canadian measures that are...

For most of Canadian economic history, French-Canadians (composing more than a quarter of the country's population) had living standards inferior to those of English-Canadians. This was true even in the province (Québec) where the French-Canadians constituted a majority. Today, no significant...