Reversal of Fortunes or Continued Success? Cohort Differences in Education and Earnings of Childhood Immigrants.

• Autores: Aneta Bonikowska, Feng Hou
• Localización: International migration review, ISSN 0197-9183, Vol. 44, Nº. 2, 2010, págs. 320-353
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Using several years of Canadian census data, this study examines cohort differences in educational attainment and earnings among childhood immigrants who arrived in Canada between 1960 and 1989. Successive cohorts of childhood immigrants had increasingly higher university completion rates than their Canadian-born peers by age 25–34. We find that this lead was tempered by declining earnings of immigrant parents relative to Canadian-born parents, particularly among the 1980s cohort. Despite rising university completion rates, wages of male (but not female) childhood immigrants lagged behind those of their Canadian-born peers. This gap can be accounted for largely by the rising share of members of racial minority groups and the decreasing incidence of full-time employment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]