Table 5 OLS estimates of weekly wage earnings—2006
Native born | Immigrants (Canadian educated) | Immigrants (internationally educated) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Coefficient | P > |z| | Coefficient | P > |z| | Coefficient | P > |z| | ||
Dummies for NRI classes | |||||||
1.0–0.8 | Base | Base | Base | ||||
0.8–0.6 | −0.0187 | 0.225 | −0.0208 | 0.273 | −0.0259 | 0.472 | |
0.6–0.4 | −0.0169 | 0.182 | −0.0293 | 0.169 | −0.0399 | 0.252 | |
0.4–0.2 | −0.0382 | 0.000 | −0.0326 | 0.034 | −0.0526 | 0.038 | |
0.2–0.0 | −0.1259 | 0.000 | −0.1276 | 0.000 | −0.1166 | 0.000 | |
Dummies for degrees | |||||||
Apprenticeship | Base | Base | Base | ||||
Trades | 0.0418 | 0.000 | 0.0195 | 0.197 | −0.0432 | 0.056 | |
College—less than 1 year | −0.0035 | 0.697 | −0.0265 | 0.138 | −0.0196 | 0.057 | |
College—1 to 2 years | 0.0355 | 0.007 | 0.0138 | 0.370 | −0.0314 | 0.124 | |
College—more than 2 years | 0.0752 | 0.000 | 0.0583 | 0.000 | −0.0256 | 0.183 | |
University—below bachelor’s | 0.1040 | 0.000 | 0.0509 | 0.017 | 0.0033 | 0.888 | |
Bachelor’s degree | 0.1728 | 0.000 | 0.1210 | 0.000 | −0.0079 | 0.732 | |
University—above bachelor’s | 0.2156 | 0.000 | 0.1521 | 0.000 | 0.0354 | 0.183 | |
Degrees in medicine | 0.0873 | 0.048 | 0.1367 | 0.042 | −0.0125 | 0.837 | |
Male | 0.1641 | 0.000 | 0.1276 | 0.000 | 0.1437 | 0.000 | |
Age | 0.0796 | 0.000 | 0.0802 | 0.000 | 0.0455 | 0.000 | |
Age2 | −0.0008 | 0.000 | −0.0008 | 0.000 | −0.0004 | 0.000 | |
R 2 | 0.358 | 0.314 | 0.244 | ||||
Observations | 1,150,617 | 190,624 | 12,706 | ||||
Number of clusters (Occupations) | 520 | 518 | 513 | ||||
Number of clusters (Fields of study) | 915 | 877 | 838 | ||||