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Changing Immigrant Characteristics and Entry Earnings

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  • Hou, Feng
  • Picot, Garnett

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During the 1990s and 2000s, changes in immigration selection policies significantly altered the characteristics of new immigrants to Canada across a number of dimensions, including educational attainment at landing, immigration class, source region, pre-landing Canadian work experience and geographic distribution. These changes were designed primarily to improve immigrant economic outcomes at landing. This paper examines whether immigrant entry earnings improved as a result of these changes in immigration selection and, if so, which characteristics contributed most to the improvement.

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  • Hou, Feng & Picot, Garnett, 2016. "Changing Immigrant Characteristics and Entry Earnings," Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series 2016374e, Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch.
  • Handle: RePEc:stc:stcp3e:2016374e
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    2. Valerie Preston & John Shields & Marshia Akbar, 2022. "Migration and Resilience in Urban Canada: Why Social Resilience, Why Now?," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 23(3), pages 1421-1441, September.
    3. Dostie, Benoit & Li, Jiang & Card, David & Parent, Daniel, 2023. "Employer policies and the immigrant–native earnings gap," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 233(2), pages 544-567.
    4. Kimberly Wong, 2020. "The Improved Labour Market Performance of New Immigrants to Canada, 2006-2019," CSLS Research Reports 2020-03, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
    5. David A. Green & Christopher Worswick, 2017. "Canadian economics research on immigration through the lens of theories of justice," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 50(5), pages 1262-1303, December.
    6. Ibrahim Bousmah & Gilles Grenier, 2022. "Labor shortages and immigration: The case of the Canadian agriculture sector," Agribusiness, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 38(1), pages 220-235, January.
    7. Georgina Chuatico & Michael Haan & Lindsay Finlay, 2023. "Forms of Capital in the Economic Integration of Immigrants in Canada," Journal of International Migration and Integration, Springer, vol. 24(2), pages 587-610, June.

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