TY  - JOUR
AU  - Bloom,David E.
AU  - Grenier,Gilles
AU  - Gunderson,Morley
TI  - The Changing Labor Market Position of Canadian Immigrants
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 4672
PY  - 1994
Y2  - March 1994
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4672
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w4672.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
David E. Bloom
Harvard School of Public Health
Department of Global Health and Population
665 Huntington Ave.
Boston, MA 02115
Tel: 617/432-0866
Fax: 617/432-6733
E-Mail: dbloom@hsph.harvard.edu

Morley Gunderson
AB  - This paper uses pooled 1971, 1981, and 1986 Canadian census data to evaluate the extent to which (1) the earnings of Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2) immigrants' earnings grow more rapidly over time than those of the Canadian-born. Variations in the labor market assimilation of immigrants according to their gender and country of origin are also analyzed.  The results suggest that recent immigrant cohorts have had more difficulty being assimilated into the Canadian labor market than earlier ones, an apparent consequence of recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged recession of the early 1980s.
ER  -