Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: evidence from Canada

Pandey, Manish; Townsend, James

doi:10.1186/s40176-016-0075-x

Table 2 Earnings profile

From: Prior host-country work experience and immigrant labor market outcomes: evidence from Canada

	Male				Female
	Model 1		Model 2		Model 1		Model 2
	Estimate	S.E.	Estimate	S.E.	Estimate	S.E.	Estimate	S.E.
Prefil	0.541***	0.079	0.342***	0.048	0.215*	0.090	0.155*	0.070
Prefil*ysa	−0.041***	0.003	−0.041***	0.003	−0.042***	0.005	−0.044***	0.005
Prefil*ysa ²	0.001***	0.000	0.001***	0.000	0.001***	0.000	0.001***	0.000
Ysa	0.079***	0.007	0.086***	0.005	0.081***	0.002	0.084***	0.003
Ysa2	−0.002***	0.000	−0.002***	0.000	−0.002***	0.000	−0.002***	0.000
Ysa*9092	0.007***	0.001	0.004*	0.002	0.007***	0.001	0.006***	0.001
Ysa*9396	0.006*	0.002	0.007***	0.001	0.008**	0.003	0.011**	0.004
Ysa*9799	−0.003	0.005	0.006**	0.002	0.001	0.001	0.008***	0.002
Ysa*0003	0.020***	0.004	0.032***	0.001	0.024***	0.002	0.034***	0.004
Ysa*0407	0.029***	0.002	0.045***	0.005	0.038***	0.006	0.051***	0.007
Ysa*0809	0.084***	0.010	0.085***	0.014	0.093***	0.013	0.095***	0.016
Coh9092	−0.132***	0.015	−0.090***	0.022	−0.134***	0.028	−0.121***	0.029
Coh9396	0.025	0.048	−0.100***	0.016	−0.064	0.056	−0.196***	0.052
Coh9799	0.192***	0.056	−0.059	0.037	0.135*	0.054	−0.113*	0.047
Coh0003	0.050	0.046	−0.207***	0.057	0.050	0.060	−0.212**	0.072
Coh0407	0.029	0.092	−0.202*	0.093	−0.020	0.099	−0.283**	0.104
Coh0809	−0.133	0.098	−0.273*	0.106	−0.259*	0.123	−0.460***	0.119
Married			0.151***	0.015			−0.010	0.011
Nfld			0.718***	0.062			0.288***	0.049
Pei			−0.000	0.040			−0.025	0.039
Nscotia			−0.037	0.027			−0.253***	0.025
Nbrunswick			0.215***	0.041			−0.015	0.035
Quebec			−0.127***	0.019			−0.208***	0.018
Manitoba			0.055*	0.024			0.039**	0.015
Sask			0.147***	0.025			0.103***	0.021
Alberta			0.269***	0.015			0.101***	0.011
Bc			0.003	0.017			−0.061***	0.013
Unemp			−0.037***	0.006			−0.023***	0.004
Fr*fr			−0.336***	0.015			−0.161***	0.033
Eng*both			−0.049	0.040			−0.028	0.043
Fr*both			−0.179***	0.012			−0.037	0.031
Ne*eng			−0.417***	0.031			−0.283***	0.044
Ne*fr			−0.599***	0.006			−0.436***	0.046
Ne*both			−0.438***	0.029			−0.271***	0.018
Ne*neither			−0.623***	0.019			−0.554***	0.038
Africa			−0.135**	0.045			−0.026	0.066
Asia			−0.323***	0.026			−0.104	0.054
Americas			−0.120***	0.035			−0.093***	0.024
US			0.154	0.098			0.288***	0.069
Oceania			0.011	0.080			0.167**	0.058
Exp			−0.010	0.007			−0.003	0.004
Exp2			−0.000**	0.000			−0.000***	0.000
Hsorless			−0.275***	0.026			−0.353***	0.025
Someps			−0.195***	0.021			−0.219***	0.009
Constant	9.683***	0.086	10.981***	0.164	9.451***	0.116	10.415***	0.129
N	4,225,855		4,225,855		1,693,520		1,693,520
R ²	0.051		0.150		0.050		0.117

Notes: The dependant variable is the log of real earnings. Standard errors are clustered by province of residence. The reference group consists of a single immigrant with a university degree, migrating from Europe in 1988–1989, whose mother tongue and official language is English, and who is originally destined for Ontario ***, **, *Significant at 0.01, 0.05, and 0.10 levels, respectively

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