International students, immigration and earnings growth: the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

Hou, Feng; Lu, Yuqian

doi:10.1186/s40176-017-0091-5

Table 3 Regression models comparing earnings between Canadian-educated immigrant men and Canadian-born men with a university degree, 1991 and 2006 cohorts

From: International students, immigration and earnings growth: the effect of a pre-immigration host-country university education

	1991 cohort			2006 cohort
	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3	Model 1	Model 2	Model 3
	coefficient
Canadian-educated immigrants	−0.760 ***	−0.549 ***	−0.245 ***	−0.660 ***	−0.324 ***	0.003
Years since the base year	0.074 ***	0.066 ***	0.068 ***	0.101 ***	0.089 ***	0.098 ***
Squared years since base year	−0.002 ***	−0.002 ***	−0.002 ***	−0.007 ***	−0.006 ***	−0.007 ***
Canadian-educated immigrants interacted with years since base year	0.071 ***	0.056 ***	0.062 ***	0.105 ***	0.032 ***	0.055 ***
Canadian-educated immigrants interacted with squared years since base year	−0.003 ***	−0.002 ***	−0.002 ***	−0.007 **	−0.002	−0.004 *
Age in the base year	…	0.183 **	−0.070	…	0.103	−0.105
Age squared	…	−0.003 **	0.001	…	−0.001	0.002
Graduate degrees	…	0.227 ***	0.218 ***	…	0.144 ***	0.149 ***
Months of study in a year	…	−0.180 ***	−0.157 ***	…	−0.101 ***	−0.084 ***
French	…	0.006	0.007	…	0.099 **	0.059 *
Other languages	…	−0.273 **	−0.211 **	…	−0.379 ***	−0.207 *
Visible minorities	…	−0.193 ***	−0.036	…	−0.125 **	−0.057
Atlantic region	…	−0.193 ***	−0.122 ***	…	−0.107 **	−0.051 *
Quebec	…	−0.219 ***	−0.129 ***	…	−0.287 **	−0.143 ***
Manitoba and Saskatchewan	…	−0.247 ***	−0.186 ***	…	−0.040	0.004
Alberta	…	−0.017	0.005	…	0.216 ***	0.194 ***
British Columbia	…	−0.207 ***	−0.157 ***	…	−0.116 ***	−0.081 ***
Regional unemployment rate	…	−0.010 **	−0.009 *	…	−0.007	−0.014 ***
Low prior earnings	…	…	0.039	…	…	0.181 ***
Medium prior earnings	…	…	0.241 ***	…	…	0.559 ***
High prior earnings	…	…	0.800 ***	…	…	1.130 ***
Years of prior Canadian work experience	…	…	0.030 ***	…	…	0.010
Intercept	10.758 ***	8.099 ***	11.438 ***	10.807 ***	9.114 ***	11.631 ***

Note: The model R-squared is 0.150, 0.208 and 0.312 in models 1, 2 and 3, respectively, for the 1991 cohort, it is 0.108, 0.257 and 0.393 in models 1, 2 and 3, respectively, for the 2006 cohort. Sources: Statistics Canada, 1991 Census and Longitudinal Worker File linkage; 2006 Census and T1 personal tax file linkage; Temporary Residents File, Immigrant Landing File and T1 personal tax file linkage, and Longitudinal Immigration Database
… not applicable
*Significantly different from reference category (p < 0.05), **p <0.01, ***p < 0.001

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