Changing Immigrant Characteristics and Entry Earnings

Feng Hou and Garnett Picot

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract:

During the 1990s and 2000s, changes in immigration selection policies significantly altered the characteristics of new immigrants to Canada across a number of dimensions, including educational attainment at landing, immigration class, source region, pre-landing Canadian work experience and geographic distribution. These changes were designed primarily to improve immigrant economic outcomes at landing. This paper examines whether immigrant entry earnings improved as a result of these changes in immigration selection and, if so, which characteristics contributed most to the improvement.

Keywords: Education; training and skills; Ethnic diversity and immigration; Job training and educational attainment; Labour; Labour market and income; Wages; salaries and other earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-02-17
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