Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes: Implications for Earnings and Income Inequality in Canada / Casey Warman, Christopher Worswick.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Warman, Casey.

Contributor:

National Bureau of Economic Research.

Worswick, Christopher.

Series:

Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w21307.

NBER working paper series no. w21307

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);

Other Title:

Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2015.

Summary:

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.

Notes:

Print version record

June 2015.