Title | Technological change and declining immigrant outcomes, implications for income inequality in Canada |
Year of Publication | 2014 |
Authors | Warman, C., and Worswick C. |
Journal | Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN) Working Papers |
Date Published | November |
Keywords | earnings, human capital, immigration, language proficiency, occupational mobility, skills |
Abstract | 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 leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive skills and a greater wage return to university education. Controlling for education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided with cross cohort declines in cognitive task requirements and cross cohort increases in manual task requirements. The immigrant earnings outcomes had only a small effect on overall Canadian earnings inequality. |
URL | http://www.clsrn.econ.ubc.ca/workingpapers/CLSRN%20Working%20Paper%20no.%20145%20-%20Abstract.pdf |
Document URL | http://www.clsrn.econ.ubc.ca/workingpapers/CLSRN%20Working%20Paper%20no.%20145%20-%20Warman%20and%20Worswick.pdf |
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Publication language(s) | English |