Skill utilization and earnings of STEM-educated immigrants in Canada : differences by degree level and field of study / by Garnett Picot, Feng Hou.: CS11-0019/435E-PDF
"In Canada, immigrants represented more than half of the population in the prime working ages with at least a bachelor's degree in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields of study in 2016. They accounted for three-quarters of engineering and computer science graduates with a master’s or doctorate degree. This paper examines the skill utilization and earnings of employed STEM-educated immigrants by field of study and degree level. Compared with the Canadian-born with similar levels of education and in similar fields of study, immigrants with a bachelor's degree had considerably lower skill utilization rates and earnings outcomes than those of doctoral degree holders. This is mostly because immigrant doctoral graduates are more likely to be educated in a Western country. By field of study, immigrant engineering graduates, particularly at the bachelor's level, had relatively weaker skill utilization rates and earnings outcomes; immigrant computer science graduates did somewhat better. The slightly more than half of STEM-educated immigrants who did not find a STEM job had the weakest skill utilization rates and earnings outcomes. Much of the gap between the earnings of immigrant and Canadian-born graduates was associated with differences in country of education. STEM immigrants educated in Canada, the United States, the United Kingdom or France had outcomes similar to the Canadian-born"--Abstract, page 5.
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| Department/Agency | Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch. |
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| Title | Skill utilization and earnings of STEM-educated immigrants in Canada : differences by degree level and field of study / by Garnett Picot, Feng Hou. |
| Series title | Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, 1205-9153 ; no. 435 |
| Publication type | Series - View Master Record |
| Language | [English] |
| Other language editions | [French] |
| Format | Electronic |
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| Note(s) | Issued also in French under title: Utilisation des compétences et gains des immigrants ayant fait des études en STGM au Canada : différences par grade et domaine d'études. "11F0019M No. 435." "2019023." "December 2019." Issued also in HTML format. Includes bibliographical references (page 27). |
| Publishing information | [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2019. ©2019 |
| Author / Contributor | Picot, W. G., author. |
| Description | 1 online resource (27 pages). |
| ISBN | 9780660332376 |
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| Departmental catalogue number | 11F0019M |
| Subject terms | Immigrants -- Education -- Canada -- Statistics. Immigrants -- Employment -- Canada -- Statistics. College graduates -- Employment -- Canada -- Statistics. Wages -- Immigrants -- Canada -- Statistics. Wages -- College graduates -- Canada -- Statistics. |
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