%0 Journal Article
%T Trends in occupational and earnings attainments of women immigrants to Canada, 1971-1996
%A Ambrose
%A Michelle
%A Wanner
%A Richard A.
%J Canadian Studies in Population
%D 2003
%I Canadian Population Society
%X English This study examines the extent to which immigrant women arriving in Canadabetween the 1960s and the early 1990s were able to attain occupations andearnings equivalent to those of Canadian-born women using a data file createdby merging public-use microdata files from Censuses of Canada between 1971and 1996. We study both changes in country of birth effects on the earnings andoccupational status of women aged 25 to 29 immigrating prior to each of thefive census years and the experience of successive female immigrant cohorts asthey age to determine the extent to which the effects of birthplace onoccupational status and earnings change over their careers. In both cases we finda considerable advantage associated with being educated in Canada compared tobeing educated abroad. For those visible minority immigrants just beginningtheir careers in Canada, we could find no evidence that more recent cohorts havelower attainments than earlier cohorts, though this was true for some Europeangroups. In our analysis of aging cohorts we find evidence of a tendency forimmigrant earnings to converge with those of the Canadian born and for thattendency to be stronger in more recent cohorts. French Cette ¨¦tude examine ¨¤ quel point les femmes immigrantes arrivant au Canadaentre les ann¨¦es 60 et le d¨¦but des ann¨¦es 90 ¨¦taient capables d`obtenir lesemplois et les traitements ¨¦quivalents aux ceux des femmes canadiens desouche, en utilisant un fichier de donn¨¦es cr¨¦¨¦ par une fusion des micro-fichiersde donn¨¦es en provenance des Recensements du Canada pris entre 1971 et 1996.Nous ¨¦tudions, d`un c t¨¦, des changements des effets du lieu de naissance sur lestatut professionnel et de revenu des femmes entre l`age 25 et 29 immigrantavant chaque p¨¦riode de recensement quinquennale et, d`autre c t¨¦, l`exp¨¦riencedes cohorts immigrants f¨¦minins successifs alors qu`elles vieillissent, afin ded¨¦couvrir l`incidence du lieu de naissance sur le statut professionnel et les gainset comment cela a chang¨¦ ¨¤ travers leurs carri¨¨res. Dans les deux cas, noustrouvons l`avantage consid¨¦rable li¨¦ avec l`¨¦ducation obtenue au Canada parrapport ¨¤ l`¨¦ducation obtenue ¨¤ l`¨¦tranger. Pour les immigrants minoritairesvisibles au d¨¦but de leurs carri¨¨res, nous n`avons pu trouver aucune ¨¦videnceque les cohorts plus r¨¦cents ont les gains plus bas que les cohorts plus t t,quoiqu¡¯il ceci soit vrai pour quelques groupes europ¨¦ans. Dans notre analyse descohorts ag¨¦s, nous trouvons de l¡¯¨¦vidence d¡¯une tendance pour les gainsimmigrants ¨¤ converger avec ceux des canadiens de souche, et de l¡¯¨¦vidence,dans les cohort
%K immigration
%K women
%K occupation
%K earnings
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