A Comparative Analysis of the Labour Market Performance of University-Educated Immigrants in Australia, Canada, and the United States

Ana Ferrer, Mikal Skuterud and Andrew Clarke ()

No 1807, Working Papers from University of Waterloo, Department of Economics

Abstract: We examine data from Australia, Canada, and the U.S. to inform the potential for immigrant screening policies to influence the labour market performance of skilled immigrants. Our estimates point to improvements in employment rates and weekly earnings of male university‐educated immigrants in all three countries concomitant with policy reforms. Nonetheless, the gains are modest in comparison to a substantial and persistent performance advantage of U.S. skilled immigrants. Given that there is increasingly little to distinguish the skilled immigration policies of these countries, we interpret the U.S. advantage as primarily reflecting the relative positive selectivity of U.S. immigrants

JEL-codes: J08 J15 J24 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 44 pages
Date: 2018-01-02, Revised 2018-01-02
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