Annual Levels of Immigration and Immigrant Entry Earnings in Canada
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The annual level of immigration is a critical component of a country's immigration policy. This study considers the potential influence of immigration levels on immigrant entry earnings. Using the Longitudinal Immigration Database over the 1982–2010 period, this study finds that a 10 percent increase in the size of a cohort of entering immigrants is associated with a 0.8 percent decline in entry earnings among immigrant men in that cohort and a 0.3 percent decline among immigrant women when controls for changes in immigrant characteristics and macroeconomic conditions are applied. These effects are consistent across the immigrant entry earnings distribution, although somewhat weaker at the very top.
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- Authors
- Hou, F., & Picot, G.
- Affiliations
- Statistics Canada (CA)
- ORCID
- Hou, Feng
- Venue
- Canadian Public Policy
- Published
- 2014-06
- Volume
- 40
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 166-181
- ISSN
- 0317-0861 (ISSN-L)
- 1911-9917
- OpenAlex
- W2117752611
- Semantic Scholar
- 2913cbb85d93092d5963f3bdea08e70a4604df88
- Cited by
- 22
- References
- 43
- Citations by year
- 2025: 1 · 2023: 2 · 2021: 4 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 2 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 1 · 2014: 1
- FWCI
- 8.62
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Canadian Public Policy (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration and Labor Dynamics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Migration, Refugees, and Integration
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Labor market dynamics and wage inequality
- Keywords
- cohort size, immigration policy, wage distribution, Canada
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