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The "negative" assimilation of immigrants

7 Aug 2015

Abstract With Canadian data ranging from 1991 to 2011, this paper investigates the effects of the number of years since migration on the earnings of immigrants from the United States and the United Kingdom in Canada. [...] The differences between the policies of the two countries affect the composition of immigration by source country and the self-selection behaviour of immigrants. [...] Unlike the U. S. public use data used by CM in which the 1. We do not use the restricted confidential microdata for this research since the groups of immigrants and the variables that we use are clearly identified in the public use data. [...] This is what CM found with English speaking immigrants in the U. S. We run the regressions for the two countries from which English-speaking immigrants in our sample originate -- the U. S. and the U. K., first together and then separately for the U. S. and the U. K. This is accompanied with a regression on Chinese immigrants as a point of comparison with the previous two countries. [...] The average age of the U. S. and U. K. immigrants increases during the period, reflecting the general ageing of the population, while the Chinese immigrants’ average age remained relatively constant.
immigrants wages wage differentials

Authors

Grenier, Gilles, Zhang, Yi

Pages
34
Published in
Ottawa, Ontario

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