Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/80564 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 7378
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
We examine how immigrants in Canada fare in terms of promotions relative to their native peers. Using linked employer-employee data and firm effects, we identify the extent to which differences in promotion outcomes result from immigrants sorting into firms offering dead-end jobs versus facing intra-firm barriers to advancement. We find that while white immigrants experience broadly similar promotion outcomes relative to their white native peers, visible minority immigrants - particularly those in their first five years in Canada - are substantially less likely to have been promoted and have been promoted fewer times with their employers than their white native peers. Newly arrived female visible minority immigrants sort into firms offering dead end jobs, but most of the differences in promotion outcomes between immigrants and their native peers result from intra-firm differences in promotion outcomes. The findings imply that policies that do not tackle barriers to advancement within firms may be insufficient to address the difficulties faced by immigrants in the labor force.
Subjects: 
promotions
immigration
JEL: 
J61
J71
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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