Unemployment Incidence of Immigrants Over the Business Cycle.
by
James Ted McDonald and Christopher Worswick.
May 1996
Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Parkville Victoria
3052 Australia
ABSTRACT
The unemployment incidence of immigrant and non-immigrant men in Canada
is compared using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years from
1982 to 1993. Recent immigrants are found to have higher unemployment probabilities
than non-immigrants with the difference being larger in recession years.
Subsequently, measures of unemployment assimilation of immigrants are found
to be sensitive to the macroeconomic conditions of the survey years. Comparing
unemployment probabilities across the worst years of the recessions of
the early 1980s and 1990s, evidence is found of positive unemployment assimilation
of recent immigrants cohorts. Differences in unemployment probabilities
across immigrant arrival cohorts holding the years-since-migration the
same are not found to be important.
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