The Work Trajectories of Married Canadian Immigrant Women, 2006–2019

Ana Ferrer, Yazhuo (Annie) Pan and Tammy Schirle
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Yazhuo (Annie) Pan: University of Toronto

Journal of International Migration and Integration, 2023, vol. 24, issue 3, No 7, 697-716

Abstract: Abstract The behaviour of married immigrant women regarding fertility and labour markets is an essential piece to understand the economic and cultural integration of immigrant households. However, the contribution of married immigrant women to the Canadian labour market was—until recently—considered of secondary importance and their labour market choices studied within an economic framework of temporary attachment to the labour force. Recent research, however, finds that a significant fraction of married immigrant women make labour supply decisions (and face barriers) similar to those of native-born married women. We show that this is the case in Canada as well, by estimating the progress of immigrant women over the 2000s. We use traditional measures of labour market outcomes, such as participation, employment and wages, but also novel estimates of labour market dynamics, such as transitions across labour market states to show the work trajectories of married Canadian immigrant women. Results show that immigrant women are less likely to transition into employment—more likely to transition out of employment to either unemployment or inactivity—and more likely to respond to income shocks than the Canadian born. There is evidence of a gradual convergence with years spent in Canada to the outcomes of the Canadian born, which is much slower for immigrant women than immigrant men.

Keywords: Labour force attachment; Immigrant women; Transition rates between labour states; Convergence in labour outcomes (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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