Labor market mobility and the early-career outcomes of immigrant men

Javdani, Mohsen; McGee, Andrew

doi:10.1186/s40176-018-0128-4

Table 1 Summary statistics

From: Labor market mobility and the early-career outcomes of immigrant men

Variable	White Canadian-born	Visible minority Canadian-born	White immigrant	Visible minority immigrant
Unemployed	0.082	0.084	0.043	0.067
New employer	0.123	0.110	0.209	0.151
Same employer, promoted	0.335	0.269	0.311	0.199
Same employer, not promoted	0.460	0.537	0.437	0.583
Change in log-hourly wage^ǂ	0.083	0.009	0.095	0.066
Changed occupations^ǂ	0.162	0.223	0.258	0.193
Log-hourly wage in the first interview	2.664	2.773	2.887	2.731
Education
Bachelor or higher	0.190	0.305	0.444	0.509
More than high school but less than bachelor	0.551	0.548	0.356	0.389
High school grad	0.181	0.074	0.141	0.077
Less than high school*	0.077	0.071	0.056	0.023
Married	0.426	0.243	0.547	0.437
Number of dependent children	0.282	0.109	0.272	0.298
Age	25.202	24.925	27.397	27.596
Years of actual full-time experience	5.281	4.427	5.735	5.481
Full-time job	0.737	0.615	0.822	0.862
Membership in a union	0.181	0.161	0.109	0.144
Tenure with employer	3.044	2.201	3.199	2.833
Language spoken at home different from work	0.032	0.020	0.014	0.053
Industry
Construction and natural resources	0.085	0.015	0.063	0.007
Transportation, warehousing, wholesale	0.116	0.044	0.128	0.065
Communication and other utilities	0.017	0.014	0.007	0.011
Retail trade and consumer services	0.300	0.238	0.222	0.263
Finance and insurance	0.027	0.123	0.029	0.120
Real estate, rental, and leasing operations	0.016	0.019	0.007	0.004
Business services	0.124	0.144	0.175	0.197
Education and health services	0.071	0.163	0.075	0.057
Information and cultural industries	0.037	0.047	0.038	0.021
Manufacturing*	0.202	0.188	0.250	0.250
Occupation
Managers	0.093	0.074	0.150	0.150
Professionals	0.142	0.261	0.323	0.251
Technical/traders	0.504	0.332	0.374	0.354
Marketing/sales	0.054	0.141	0.019	0.071
Clerical/administrative	0.087	0.151	0.052	0.121
Production workers*	0.116	0.038	0.079	0.050
Percentile in firm wage distribution	0.298	0.321	0.256	0.341
Number of observations	4192	189	260	266

*Omitted category in our regression specifications
^ǂThe statistic applies to the restricted sample of 4585 men who are employed in both interviews

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