Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Parkville Victoria
3052 Australia
ABSTRACT
The labour market activity of immigrant and non-immigrant married couples
is compared using data from the 1981 and 1991 Canadian Censuses. New evidence
is provided on the performance of immigrant men and women in terms of three
components of annual earnings: hourly wage rates, hours worked per week,
and weeks worked per year. Intra-family tradeoffs of investments in the
immigrant husband's career at the expense of investments in the wife's
career are not found. However, the wife's labour market performance is
found to play a major role in the earnings creation of immigrant families.
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