Policymakers must find innovative ways to improve immigrants' likelihood of finding well-paid employment, states a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Education Quality and Immigrants' Success in the Canadian Labour Market,” author Qing Li finds that the earnings of foreign-trained...

I build a simple model of labor market segmentation in this paper. People of different language origins form separate urban labor submarkets. Utilizing the reported work language in the 2001 Census of Canada Public Use Microdata File on Individuals, I identify workers' labor market segments and...

Multiculturalism is under attack in its birthplace, Canada. I revisit the connection between the two pillars of Canadian multiculturalism, namely acceptance of English and French as the official languages and respect and sharing among all cultural groups. A unique dataset, the 2002 Canadian...