Big jump in wage gap between immigrants, Canadian-born workers | CBC
Posted by Faiz on May 1st, 2008
“The past quarter century has seen the earnings gap between recent immigrant workers and Canadian-born ones widen dramatically … In 1980, recent immigrant men earned 85 cents for every dollar of their Canadian-born counterparts. In 2005, that number plummeted to 63 cents. The drop was even more pronounced for immigrant women, who went from earning 85 cents by comparison in 1980 to only 56 cents in 2005 … Having a university degree didn’t help either.”
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:45 am
“There might also simply be discrimination,” said Morissette. “But this is awfully hard to test empirically.”
Really? It seems like the statistics do just that. Canada is systematically not recognizing some foreign credentials, specifically from countries that do not speak English as a first language. Seems like discrimination to me.