First and second generation immigrant educational attainment and labor market outcomes
Subtitle: a comparison of the United States and Canada
By: by Abdurrahman Aydemir, Arthur Sweetman
Contributors: Sweetman, Arthur
Series: Discussion paper -- no. 2298; Discussion paper (Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit : Online) -- no. 2298
Publisher: IZA
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bonn, Germany
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Subjects: Employment; Effect of education on; Immigrants
Description: "The educational and labor market outcomes of the first, first-and-a-half, second and third generations of immigrants to the United States and Canada are compared. These countries' immigration flows have large differences in source countries, scale and timing, and Canada has a much larger policy emphasis on skilled workers. Following from these, the educational attainment of US immigrants is currently lower than that in Canada and the intergenerational transmission of education is expected to cause the gap to grow. This in turn influences earnings. Controlling only for age, the current US second generation has earnings comparable to those of the third, while earnings are higher for the second generation in Canada. Interestingly, the positive wage gap in favour of first-and-a-half and second generation immigrants in Canada is exceeded by the gap in educational attainment, but a lower immigrant rate of return attenuates education's impact. Moreover, observable characteristics explain little of the difference in earnings outcomes across generations in the US but their introduction into an earnings equation causes the Canadian second generation premium to switch signs and become negative relative to the third"--Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit web site.
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