Immigrant earnings returns to post‐migration education: Evidence for Canada, 1999–2013

Wen Ci, Michelle Laing, Marcel Voia and Christopher Worswick
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Wen Ci: Carleton University
Michelle Laing: Carleton University

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Abstract: Using the recently created Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database (CEEDD), we analyze the earnings returns to investments in post secondary education by immigrants made after arrival in Canada. Fixed effects estimation results suggest that postsecondary education (PSE) in Canada increases annual earnings of men and women by 21.9% and 32.8%, respectively, for those enrolled full time and by 11.2% and 21.0% for those enrolled part time, respectively. Earnings effects of PSE are larger for immigrants admitted in the skilled worker category relative to family class immigrants and to refugees and are increasing in the level of education of the immigrants at landing. Immigrants from non-traditional source countries generally have larger returns to PSE than immigrants from English-language source countries, such as the US and the countries of Northwestern Europe.

Date: 2020-11
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Published in Canadian Journal of Economics / Revue Canadienne d'Économique, 2020, 53 (4), pp.1599-1617. ⟨10.1111/caje.12476⟩

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DOI: 10.1111/caje.12476

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