Department of Economics. University of Melbourne. Parkville Victoria 3052 Australia
ABSTRACT
The earnings of immigrant and native-born men in Canada are compared
using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years from 1981 to 1992.
Evidence of a decline of the earnings of recent cohorts of immigrants to
Canada is not found. Job tenure information is introduced for the first
time into an analysis of immigrant earnings and is found to be a strongly
significant determinant of earnings; thus, previous estimates of immigrant
earnings differentials may reflect in part differences in tenure between
immigrants and the native born. When the sample is restricted to pairs
of surveys which are close to the Census survey years. Macroeconomic conditions
are found to be a significant determinant of the rate of assimilation of
recent immigrants, thus providing an explanation for the sensitivity of
earnings assimilation estimates based on two survey years to the choice
of those years.
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