Relative Wages of Immigrant Men and the Great Recession

Gill, Fahad; Shaeye, Abdihafit

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“…Native-born and immigrant workers are historically differentially affected during economic shocks, partly as a result of sectoral segregation ( Murillo-Huertas and Simon 2016 ). For example, the immigrant wage disadvantage increased during the Great Recession in the United States ( Gill and Shaeye 2020 ), and even unionized immigrants faced greater job loss rates than native-born White workers ( Catron 2013 ). Job sector segregation and the concentration of immigrants into low-skilled jobs increase the effect of recessions on immigrants ( Murillo-Huertas and Simon 2016 ).…”

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“…Job sector segregation and the concentration of immigrants into low-skilled jobs increase the effect of recessions on immigrants ( Murillo-Huertas and Simon 2016 ). During recessions, employers are likely to adjust employment rates, not wages ( Gill and Shaeye 2020 ). This relative “stickiness” of wages disadvantages immigrants with less easily transferable skills.…”

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New Canadians Working amid a New Normal: Recent Immigrant Wage Penalties in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Banerjee

Emanuel

2022

Canadian Public Policy

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The global COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and arguably intensified many existing inequalities. The present analysis explores the relationship between recent immigrant earnings and the pandemic. Specifically, we attempt to empirically answer the question: Has the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated (mitigated) recent immigrant-non-immigrant employment and wage gaps? We find that the pandemic did not change the labour force activity profile of recent nor long-term immigrants. Furthermore, the pandemic did not disproportionately disadvantage recent immigrants’ earnings. In fact, recent immigrant males who were employed during the COVID-19 crisis experienced a small, but statistically significant earnings premium. This was insufficient, however, to overcome the overall earnings discount associated with being a recent immigrant. Furthermore, we find that the recent immigrant COVID-19 earnings ‘boost’ is only observable at and below the median of the earnings distribution. We also employ Heckman selection correction to attempt to adjust for unobserved sample selection into employment during the pandemic. The fact that COVID-19 has not worsened recent immigrant earnings gaps should not overshadow the large recent immigrant earnings disparities that existed prior to the pandemic and continue to exist regardless of the COVID-19 crisis.

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New Canadians Working amid a New Normal: Recent Immigrant Wage Penalties in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Lamb

Banerjee

Emanuel

2022

Canadian Public Policy

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Assuring Social Equity and Improving Income from an Assessment of Government’s Supports in a Pandemic and Migrant Workers’ Integration in Vietnam

Nguyen¹,

Nguyen²

2022

Economies

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Income improvement is the primary expectation when deciding to migrate. However, due to the limited resources and urban facilities, informal sector work leads to an increasing income gap with local workers, migrant workers in big cities are considered the most vulnerable population. When there is no social policy, migrants are even more susceptible to the negative impacts of COVID-19. To identify necessary bases for short-term and long-term intervention to attract workers to return and quickly adapt to the urban life in the economic recovery process, the study surveyed to clarify the assessment of COVID-19 support packages from which the most beneficial are electricity and water exemption and reduction, food support, loan interest reduction, and loan for salary payment. The study also used survey results from two pandemic centers in the southern region to estimate factors and impacts on the workers’ income in terms of integration, the results show that the major significant factors are education, housing, work sector, self-employment, and social insurance. We take notices to enhance workers’ integration to help retain workers by short-term measurements from the support package’s assessments and long-term measurements from the income and integration estimates to attract workers after the pandemic.

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Relative Wages of Immigrant Men and the Great Recession

Cited by 2 publications

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New Canadians Working amid a New Normal: Recent Immigrant Wage Penalties in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic

New Canadians Working amid a New Normal: Recent Immigrant Wage Penalties in Canada during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Assuring Social Equity and Improving Income from an Assessment of Government’s Supports in a Pandemic and Migrant Workers’ Integration in Vietnam

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