Immigrant employment and earnings growth in Canada and the USA: evidence from longitudinal data

Neeraj Kaushal (), Yao Lu, Nicole Denier, Julia Shu-Huah Wang and Stephen Trejo
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Neeraj Kaushal: Columbia University
Yao Lu: Columbia University
Nicole Denier: McGill University
Julia Shu-Huah Wang: Columbia University

Journal of Population Economics, 2016, vol. 29, issue 4, No 10, 1249-1277

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: US immigrants; Canadian immigrants; Economic assimilation; Longitudinal data; Immigration; Employment; Wages; Comparative study; JEL Classification; J15; J3; J18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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