This study contributes to two relatively distinct streams of literature: the economic integration of immigrants and the links between language attributes and earnings in Canada. The analysis is done with two Canadian provinces, Québec and Ontario, and uses micro-data from the five Canadian...

This paper uses a probit regression model to investigate the factors that determine shifts to English as home language in families of French Canadian, Italian, German and Ukrainian origins living in Canada outside Quebec. It is found that, except for marriage outside the language community,...

There exists a perception of economic inequalities among generations and more precisely that today’s younger generations are facing worse economic conditions than those who preceded them. In this paper, this hypothesis is tested for men and women in Canada. By pooling micro-data from the...

This paper studies the earnings of married women by language group in Quebec in 1980. In order to account for the particular aspects of the female labour market, the specification of the model includes variables related to marriage, children and selection bias due to labour force participation....