Technological change and declining immigrant outcomes, implications for income inequality in Canada
Authors: Casey Warman and Christopher Worswick
Overview
Abstract (English)
The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization was leading to a rising return to non-routine cognitive skills and a greater wage return to university education. Controlling for education, we find a pronounced cross-arrival cohort decline in earnings that coincided with cross cohort declines in cognitive task requirements and cross cohort increases in manual task requirements. The immigrant earnings outcomes had only a small effect on overall Canadian earnings inequality.
Abstract (French)
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Details
| Type | Working paper (online) |
|---|---|
| Author | Casey Warman and Christopher Worswick |
| Publication Year | 2014 |
| Title | Technological change and declining immigrant outcomes, implications for income inequality in Canada |
| Series | Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN) Working Papers |
| Number | 145 |
| City | Vancouver, BC |
| Institution | Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network |
| Publication Language | English |
- Casey Warman
- Working paper (online)
- Technological change and declining immigrant outcomes, implications for income inequality in Canada
- Casey Warman and Christopher Worswick
- Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN) Working Papers
- 2014
- 145