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Job matching for Chinese and Asian Indian immigrants in Canada
Author(s) -
Eric Fong,
Peter Shi Jiao
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
canadian studies in population
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.157
H-Index - 8
eISSN - 1927-629X
pISSN - 0380-1489
DOI - 10.25336/p6c326
Subject(s) - immigration , earnings , demographic economics , asian indian , matching (statistics) , earnings growth , asian americans , multivariate analysis , political science , ethnic group , economics , medicine , accounting , pathology , law
Using recently collected data from Toronto, a major city in Canada, we explored job mismatch among Chinese and Asian Indian immigrants. Our study shows that a relatively small percentage of Chinese immigrants, and an even lower percentage of Asian Indian immigrants, work in the same industry and occupation as they did before immigrating. The multivariate analysis suggests that higher education before immigration does help immigrants secure first jobs that match their jobs before immigration. Though other studies have noted that foreign education has a discount effect on earnings and on securing jobs, our findings show that foreign higher education improves the matching of jobs held before and after immigration. Implications of the findings are discussed.

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