Former Temporary Foreign Workers and International Students as Sources of Permanent Immigration

Sweetman, Arthur; Warman, Casey

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“…It is natural to focus in the latter group separately because, during the 1990 and early 2000s, Canadian immigration policy placed a strong emphasis on formal education. Although the qualification requirements typically concerned the main applicant, generally a man, they resulted in an increasing fraction of highly-educated spouses (Sweetman and Warman, 2009). Hence, recent cohorts of immigrant women to Canada have high levels of education relative to native-born and are deemed more likely to participate consistently in the labour market than previous cohorts.…”

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Occupational skills and labour market progression of married immigrant women in Canada

Adserà

Ferrer

2016

Labour Economics

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We use the confidential files of the 1991-2006 Canadian Census, combined with information from O*NET on the skill requirements of jobs, to explore whether immigrant women behave as secondary workers, remaining marginally attached to the labour market and experiencing little career progression over time. Our results show that the current labour market patterns of female immigrants to Canada do not fit this profile, as previous studies found, but rather conform to patterns recently exhibited by married native women elsewhere, with rising participation and wage progression. At best, only relatively uneducated immigrant women in unskilled occupations may fit the profile of secondary workers, with slow skill mobility and low-status job-traps. Educated immigrant women, on the other hand, experience skill assimilation over time: a reduction in physical strength and an increase in analytical skills required in their jobs relative to those of natives.

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Section: Regression Resultsmentioning

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Occupational skills and labour market progression of married immigrant women in Canada

Adserà

Ferrer

2016

Labour Economics

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“…This suggests that the TFW program may enhance the ability of foreign‐born workers to obtain recognition for their foreign acquired human capital in the Canadian labor market. Sweetman and Warman () also find that, among FSW principal applicants, those who were previously TFWs initially have better earnings and employment outcomes than immigrants without previous Canadian human capital. However, this advantage seems to disappear 4 years after landing.…”

Section: Broadening the Goals Of Immigration: Recent Policy Developmentsmentioning

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New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Ferrer

Picot

Riddell

2014

International Migration Review

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“…Given that our Census data cover the period 1991 through 2006, we focus on two key changes in Canadian immigration policy since the mid‐1980s (see figure ).Specifically, we are interested in the implications for immigrant earnings and overall income inequality in Canada due to: 1) the large and sustained expansion of annual immigrant intake to Canada beginning in the late 1980s and 2) the increased emphasis on university education on immigrants selected under the point system beginning in 1993 (see Beach et al. (), Sweetman and Warman () and Sweetman and Warman ()).…”

Section: Canadian Immigration Policy Since 1985mentioning

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Technological change, occupational tasks and declining immigrant outcomes: Implications for earnings and income inequality in Canada

Warman¹,

Worswick

2015

Canadian J of Economics

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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 and the resulting technological change 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 occupational task requirements and cross-cohort increases in manual occupational task requirements. The immigrant earnings outcomes had only a small effect on overall Canadian earnings inequality.

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Former Temporary Foreign Workers and International Students as Sources of Permanent Immigration

Cited by 47 publications

References 13 publications

Occupational skills and labour market progression of married immigrant women in Canada

Occupational skills and labour market progression of married immigrant women in Canada

New Directions in Immigration Policy: Canada's Evolving Approach to the Selection of Economic Immigrants

Technological change, occupational tasks and declining immigrant outcomes: Implications for earnings and income inequality in Canada

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