A study on the discrepancies between immigrants working in the regular and the ethnic enclave sectors in the Canadian Labor market. Issue 51 (2nd November 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Jiang, Shiyu
• Is Part Of: Applied economics. Volume 53:Issue 51(2021)
• Page Start: 5964
• Page End: 5987
• Publication Date: 2021-11-02
• Subjects: Labour market segmentation -- task specialization -- immigration -- ethnic enclave sector; J15 -- J82; Economics -- Periodicals; 330
• DOI: 10.1080/00036846.2021.1934390
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-6846

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This paper studies performance differences between immigrants working in the regular Canadian labour market and those in the ethnic enclave sector of the economy. First, by studying the effects of education and race on the weekly wage earnings, I find that the returns to education are greater and being a visible minority carries less of a wage penalty for immigrants working in the regular sector compared with those in the enclave sector. Moreover, taking the AMEs (Average Marginal Effects) studies, I document different effects of education and race on both earnings and job segment for these two types of immigrants and propose an explanation. After this, I compute task supply and wage gaps between different types of immigrants in three census years to show differences in assimilation by immigration cohort. Finally, I use regression models to study immigrants' task supply and weekly wages so that we can have a fuller view of the differences in performance between immigrants working in the regular and enclave sectors. I also use these models to analyse differences between immigrants and natives in Canada.