Public and Private Sector Earnings of Immigrants and the Canadian-Born: Evidence from the Labour Force Survey

Annabella Ansah () and Richard Mueller ()
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Annabella Ansah: University of Lethbridge

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2021, vol. 22, issue 4, No 11, 1403-1429

Abstract: Abstract Using Statistics Canada’s monthly Labour Force Survey master files from January 2006 to December 2018, this paper evaluates the wage differences between immigrants and comparable Canadian-born workers both within the respective levels of the private and public sectors, as well as the public sector wage premium within the immigrant and Canadian-born populations. Using both Ordinary Least Squares and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition techniques, we find that the immigrant wage gap tends to be negative and is largest in the private sector. The public-sector premium relative to the private sector is also larger for immigrants that for the Canadian-born when we compare wage differences within the two groups. Combined, these results suggest that public sector wages are important to narrowing the overall immigrant wage gap.

Keywords: Canada; Immigrants; Private sector; Public sector; Wage differentials (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1007/s12134-021-00811-7

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