2026-09-21T08:11:37.004971900Zhttps://opus.uleth.ca/server/oai/requestoai:opus.uleth.ca:10133/57252020-05-13T06:05:30Zcom_10133_3346com_10133_1com_10133_296col_10133_3347col_10133_298
ULethbridge OPUS Repository
supervisor
Mueller, Richard E.
author
Ansah, Annabella
author
University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
2020-05-12T15:04:55Z
2020-05-12T15:04:55Z
2020
https://hdl.handle.net/10133/5725
Canada 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
Wages -- Immigrants -- Canada
Canada -- Emigration and immigration -- Economic aspects
Wages -- Canada
Income -- Canada -- Statistics
Labor market -- Canada
Immigrant wages in the public and private sectors: how do these compare to the wages of the Canadian-born?
Thesis
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