Immigrant Composition and Wages in Canada

This book examines the relationship between
immigrant-composition and wages of different
occupations and different industries in Canada. It
reports the effects of change in proportion of
immigrants in a job on the wage level for both male
and female Canadians and immigrants. First, all
immigrants are considered homogeneous, and
thereafter, they are distinguished according to a
wide array of criterion (e.g. non-white immigrants,
immigration after age 39, immigration after 1990) and
a full spectrum of results are presented. These
results suggest that for immigrants, the aggregate
relationship of income with immigrant composition is
fairly small, unless they are sub-categorised into
specific groups (e.g. non-white immigrants,
immigration after 1990). The corresponding wage
penalties for Canadians are more uniform across the
different subgroup specifications and decomposition
of the data.

Autorentext
Sharif Faisal divides his time between Canada, his decade-long home where he is currently pursuing PhD in Economics at Concordia University, and Bangladesh, where he has been involved in development programming since 1999. He also cherishes his time in Central Asia. The World Bank, the Aga Khan Foundation, and IDRF are among his past employers.

Klappentext
This book examines the relationship between immigrant-composition and wages of different occupations and different industries in Canada. It reports the effects of change in proportion of immigrants in a job on the wage level for both male and female Canadians and immigrants. First, all immigrants are considered homogeneous, and thereafter, they are distinguished according to a wide array of criterion (e.g. non-white immigrants, immigration after age 39, immigration after 1990) and a full spectrum of results are presented. These results suggest that for immigrants, the aggregate relationship of income with immigrant composition is fairly small, unless they are sub-categorised into specific groups (e.g. non-white immigrants, immigration after 1990). The corresponding wage penalties for Canadians are more uniform across the different subgroup specifications and decomposition of the data.