Basic Immigrant STEM Workers in the Canadian Economy: Skill Utilization and Earnings

Garnett Picot and Feng Hou

Canadian Public Policy, 2018, vol. 44, issue S1, S113-S124

Abstract: This study examines trends in the education–occupation match and earnings outcomes of science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM)–educated immigrants and compares them with the outcomes of their Canadian-born counterparts. From 1985 to 2010, both education–occupation match and earnings outcomes deteriorated among immigrant STEM graduates while remaining more or less constant among Canadian-born STEM graduates. The decline in education–occupation match was concentrated among recent immigrants entering during the 2000s. Both immigrant STEM graduates and immigrant non-STEM graduates experienced similar declines in relative earnings. Finally, the earnings gap between immigrant and Canadian-born STEM graduates did not close quickly with years in Canada.

Keywords: immigration; STEM fields of study; STEM occupations; earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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