Human Capital Content of Canadian Immigrants: 1967-1987

Coulson, Rosilyn G; DeVoretz, Don J.

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“…Some scholars claim that immigrants’ human capital has been decreasing in the last few decades (Coulson and Devoretz, 1993) and explain this decrease as being reflective of changes in the immigration policy, such as increasing quotas of family‐ and refugee‐sponsored immigrants. This explanation has encountered opposition from Wanner (2003), who shows that while selected immigrants have higher entry earnings than immigrants who are not selected (i.e., refugees, family‐sponsored immigrants), their earnings still converge in time.…”

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Labor Market Experiences of Canadian Immigrants with Focus on Foreign Education and Experience

Buzdugan

Halli

2009

International Migration Review

109

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Recent Canadian immigrants have increasing education levels but decreasing earnings, partly due to the devaluation of foreign education and work experience. This study uses 2002 Ethnic Diversity Survey data and examines the value attributed to foreign education for immigrants based on their duration of stay in Canada, which proves to be an important methodological distinction. Immigrants from developing countries experience the most acute devaluation. The findings outline the limitations of human capital theory in explaining the labor market experience of Canadian immigrants and have implications for the current “point system” used to select immigrants to Canada.

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Section: Theoretical Backgroundmentioning

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Labor Market Experiences of Canadian Immigrants with Focus on Foreign Education and Experience

Buzdugan

Halli

2009

International Migration Review

109

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“…Due to the residency test, an immigrant may receive little or no OAS p e n~i o n .~ A third differential force impacts on the foreign-born population uniquely in the form of a transitional effect. Most immigrants enter Canada either at the last stage of their schooling period or after the completion of formal education (Coulson and DeVoretz, 1993) but they continue to invest in order to acquire further human capital that is specijic to the Canadian labour market (e.g., language proficiency, formal education, vocational training, firm-specific training etc.). Thus, the earnings profile of a typical immigrant will initially fall short but ultimately catch up to the earnings profile of a typical ~a n a d i a n -b o m 7…”

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Wealth Accumulation of Canadian and Foreign‐born Households in Canada

Shamsuddin¹,

DeVoretz

1998

Review of Income and Wealth

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This study focuses on the role of foreign‐born households in Canada's asset market. An empirical analysis of wealth accumulation is conducted for a large sample of Canadian households circa 1977–84. This study period reflects a change in Canada's immigration policy which resulted in immigration Rows switching from Europe to Asia. A life‐cycle framework is used to examine wealth accumulation behaviour of the foreign‐born vis‐à‐vis Canadian‐born households. The empirical results confirm the existence of an inverted ‘U’‐shaped wealth‐age profile for both Canadian and immigrant households. However, the 1977 results show that the rate of wealth accumulation is higher for the immigrant household than the Canadian‐born household in pre‐retirement years, while the 1984 results reveal the opposite. After retirement, the rate of wealth dissipation is slower for Canadians than for foreign‐born households. Only the 1984 results indicate that public social security wealth displaces household savings for both the Canadian‐born and the foreign‐born by a small amount. Finally, an immigrant household exhibits a stronger transfer motive within a family than a Canadian‐born household regardless of year tested.

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“…This inflow substantially augmented the trained manpower of some countries in the 1960s and 1970s. However, by the 1980s the inflow of embodied human capital had diminished (Coulson and DeVoretz, 1993). With the rise in the demand for IT workers in Europe and North America in the 1990s, the large net flow of human capital to the United States resumed under the guise of temporary inflows (DeVoretz and Iturralde, 2001).…”

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Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment

DeVoretz

2006

International Migration Review

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Human Capital Content of Canadian Immigrants: 1967-1987

Cited by 27 publications

References 4 publications

Labor Market Experiences of Canadian Immigrants with Focus on Foreign Education and Experience

Labor Market Experiences of Canadian Immigrants with Focus on Foreign Education and Experience

Wealth Accumulation of Canadian and Foreign‐born Households in Canada

Immigration Policy: Methods of Economic Assessment

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