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

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  • Wen Ci
  • Michelle Laing
  • Marcel Voia

    (LEO - Laboratoire d'Économie d'Orleans [FRE2014] - UO - Université d'Orléans - UT - Université de Tours - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)

  • Christopher Worswick

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. Retombées salariales et études post‐migratoires : l’exemple du Canada entre 1999 et 2013. En nous appuyant sur la toute nouvelle Base de données sur la dynamique canadienne entre employeurs et employés, nous analysons les avantages salariaux dont profitent les immigrants lorsqu’ils investissent dans des études postsecondaires au Canada après leur arrivée dans le pays. Les résultats des estimations à effets fixes suggèrent qu’au Canada, les études postsecondaires permettent une augmentation des revenus annuels de 21,9 % pour les hommes et 32,8 % pour les femmes dans le cadre d’un emploi à temps plein, et de 11,2 % pour les hommes et 21 % pour les femmes dans le cadre d’un emploi à temps partiel. L’incidence salariale des études postsecondaires est encore plus importante pour les immigrants admis comme travailleurs qualifiés dans la catégorie regroupement familial et réfugiés, et augmente en fonction du niveau d’études à l’arrivée dans le pays. En entreprenant des études postsecondaires, les immigrants originaires de pays non traditionnels bénéficient de meilleures retombées salariales par rapport aux immigran
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  • Wen Ci & Michelle Laing & Marcel Voia & Christopher Worswick, 2020. "Immigrant earnings returns to post‐migration education: Evidence for Canada, 1999–2013," Post-Print hal-03529693, HAL.
    • Handle: RePEc:hal:journl:hal-03529693
    DOI: 10.1111/caje.12476
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