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- Title
Immigrant employment and earnings growth in Canada and the USA: evidence from longitudinal data.
- Authors
Kaushal, Neeraj; Lu, Yao; Denier, Nicole; Wang, Julia; Trejo, Stephen
- Abstract
We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the USA using nationally representative longitudinal datasets covering 1996-2008. Models with person fixed effects show that, on average, immigrant men in Canada do not experience any relative growth in these three outcomes compared to men born in Canada. Immigrant men in the USA, on the other hand, experience positive annual growth in all three domains relative to US-born men. This difference is largely on account of low-educated immigrant men, who experience faster or longer periods of relative growth in employment and wages in the USA than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories and find that the latter over-estimate wage growth of earlier arrivals, presumably reflecting selective return migration.
- Subjects
UNITED States; MIGRANT labor; EARNED income; EDUCATION of immigrants; JOB vacancies; RETURN migration; LONGITUDINAL method
- Publication
Journal of Population Economics, 2016, Vol 29, Issue 4, p1249
- ISSN
0933-1433
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00148-016-0600-5