Ana Ferrer

TL;DR: This paper found that for immigrants, the increase in earnings associated with completing educational programs is generally higher than that of comparable natives, and they provided both signalling and human capital interpretations of this finding, and decouvre that les annees de scolarite and d'experience accumulated by les immigrants avant leur arrivee recoivent une ponderation moins grande que l'experiences comparable des Canadiens.

TL;DR: The authors examined the impact of literacy on immigrant earnings and the sources of lower returns to education and experience among immigrants, and found that the native-born literacy distribution dominates that for immigrants and that the two groups obtain similar returns to literacy skills, contrary to discrimination-based explanations for immigrant earnings differentials.

TL;DR: The authors found strong evidence of sheepskin effects associated with graduation from high school, community college or trade school, and university, accounting for 30 per cent of the return to 16 years of schooling but more than half of returns above 16 years.

TL;DR: The authors found strong evidence of sheepskin effects associated with graduation from high school, community college or trade school, and university and found that the importance of credentials increases with educational attainment, accounting for 30 per cent of the return to 16 years of schooling but more than half of returns above 16 years.

TL;DR: For example, Canada's immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants; (2) an attempt to b...