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Table 8 OLS estimates of weekly wage earnings with NHRIC and NVRIC—2006

From: Is the lower return to immigrants’ foreign schooling a postarrival problem in Canada?

 

(1) Native-born

(2) Immigrants—CE

(3) Immigrants—FE

Coef.

P > |z|

Coef.

P > |z|

Coef.

P > |z|

Degrees

 Trades

Base

Base

Base

 Registered apprenticeship

0.0358

0.000

0.0090

0.587

−0.0437

0.021

 College—less than 1 year

−0.0055

0.213

−0.0306

0.022

−0.0113

0.593

 College—1 to 2 years

0.0429

0.000

0.0249

0.280

−0.0082

0.434

 College—more than 2 years

0.0841

0.000

0.0663

0.000

0.0135

0.384

 University—below bachelor’s

0.1138

0.000

0.0777

0.000

0.0581

0.001

 Bachelor’s

0.1856

0.000

0.1568

0.000

0.0869

0.000

 Above bachelor’s less than Master’s

0.2252

0.000

0.2028

0.000

0.1431

0.000

 Medicine, dentistry, veterinary, optometry

0.1394

0.001

0.2281

0.001

0.1433

0.004

 Master’s

0.2987

0.000

0.2417

0.000

0.1229

0.000

 PhD

0.4490

0.000

0.4149

0.000

0.2946

0.000

NHRIC

 1

Base

Base

Base

 2

−0.0045

0.581

−0.0036

0.832

−0.0061

0.776

 3

−0.0174

0.090

−0.0259

0.087

−0.0278

0.307

 4

−0.0342

0.000

−0.0280

0.030

−0.0415

0.020

 5

−0.1127

0.000

−0.1070

0.000

−0.0932

0.000

NVRIC

 1

Base

Base

Base

 2

−0.0149

0.001

−0.0327

0.000

−0.0269

0.000

 3

−0.0179

0.002

−0.0316

0.000

−0.0266

0.002

 4

−0.0379

0.000

−0.0644

0.000

−0.0621

0.000

 5

−0.0784

0.000

−0.1142

0.000

−0.1063

0.000

Observations

1,228,448

219,417

150,183

  1. Notes: (1) See the notes to Table 7. (2) Standard errors are adjusted at NHRIC and NVRIC cells by using the two-way clustering method (Cameron et al. 2011)