Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/35987 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 4448
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
This paper examines the difference between the payoffs to schooling for immigrants and the native born in Canada, using 2001 Census data. Analyses are presented for males and females. Comparisons are offered with findings for the US. The paper uses the Overeducation/Required education/Undereducation framework (Hartog, 2000) and a decomposition developed by Chiswick and Miller (2008). This decomposition links overeducation to the less-than-perfect international transferability of immigrants' human capital, and under-education to favourable selection in immigration. The results show that immigrants have a lower payoff to schooling because of the different effects under-education and over-education have on their earnings. The effects of under-education, or selection in immigration, are, however, twice as large as the effects of over-education, or limited international transferability of human capital. Favourable selection in immigration appears to be less important in Canada than in the US, where it predominates among the least educated.
Subjects: 
Immigrants
skill
schooling
earnings
rates of return
Canada
JEL: 
I21
J24
J31
J61
F22
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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