Technological change,occupational tasks and declining immigrant outcomes: Implications for earnings and income inequality in Canada |
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Authors: | Casey Warman Christopher Worswick |
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Institution: | 1. Department of EconomicsDalhousie University;2. NBER;3. Department of EconomicsCarleton University |
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Abstract: | 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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