Second, given the on-going impacts of technological change and the rising importance of knowledge-based activities in almost all industrialized countries, better utilization of immigrants’ skills can efficiently contribute to the sustainability of the Canadian economic growth in the long run.1 This study contributes to the debate about the labour market conditions of highly-educated immigrants to [...] In turn, the substantial increase in the market price of vocational and technical skills acquired through the national education system could have determined at least in part the significant shift in the distribution of fields of study among applicants of the economic class with Romanian postsecondary education, all else held equal. [...] In contrast, earnings premiums over the Canadian-born are noted for very-recent immigrants who completed their postsecondary education in the United Kingdom or the United States, recent immigrants who completed their postsecondary education in the United States, the United Kingdom or Germany, and established immigrants who completed their postsecondary education in Canada, the United States, the U