Immigrant wages in the public and private sectors: how do these compare to the wages of the Canadian-born?

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dc.contributor.authorAnsah, Annabella
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorMueller, Richard E.
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-12T15:04:55Z
dc.date.available2020-05-12T15:04:55Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.descriptionSome of the analysis presented in this thesis was conducted at the Lethbridge Branch of the Prairie Regional Research Data Centre (RDC), a part of the Canadian Research Data Centre Network. The services provided by the Lethbridge RDC are made possible through the support of the University of Lethbridge, Canadian Foundation for Innovation, the Canadian Institutes of Health Research, the Social Science and Humanity Research Council and Statistics Canada. All views expressed in this work are my own.en_US
dc.description.abstractCanada has observed wage differences between comparable immigrants and the Canadian-born across the labour market. Using the cycles of Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey from 2006 to 2018, this thesis evaluates and decomposes the wage differences between immigrants and comparable Canadian-born workers both within and between the various levels of the public sector and the private sector. Progressing from the Ordinary Least Squares estimation method, the unconditional quantile regression method is combined with the Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition method to evaluate these differences at the 10th, 25th, 50th, 75th and 90th quantiles of the wage distribution. Within sectors, results show that the total immigrant wage gap is largest in the private sector, and the greater proportion of this gap is unexplained. Between sectors, the public-private sector wage gap is wider among the immigrant group, and most of these gaps are explained by the differences in the composition of workers in each sector.en_US
dc.description.sponsorshipChild and Youth Refugee Research Coalition (CYRRC)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5725
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectEconomics [0501]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectEconomic history [0509]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectSocial research [0344]en_US
dc.proquestyesNoen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Economicsen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Economicsen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectWages -- Immigrants -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectCanada -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspectsen_US
dc.subjectWages -- Canadaen_US
dc.subjectIncome -- Canada -- Statisticsen_US
dc.subjectLabor market -- Canadaen_US
dc.titleImmigrant wages in the public and private sectors: how do these compare to the wages of the Canadian-born?en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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