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Abstract (English)

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of education-job mismatches in explaining the poor labour market outcomes observed for Canadian immigrants. Immigrants have a modestly lower incidence of working in jobs related to their education than the Canadian-born, and there is a sizable wage penalty for working in unrelated jobs. The lower incidence of matching, among immigrant workers, can explain a sizable portion of their lower returns to foreign education credentials, and the immigrant-native wage gap among university educated workers. Foreign acquired education and work experience is not discounted in the Canadian labour market for immigrants who are successfully matched.

Abstract (French)

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