abstract: 'We use longitudinal data from the income tax system to study the impacts

  of firms'' employment and wage-setting policies on the level and change

  in immigrant-native wage differences in Canada. We focus on immigrants

  who arrived in the early 2000s, distinguishing between those with and

  without a college degree from two broad groups of countries - the U.S.,

  the U.K. and Northern Europe, and the rest of the world. Consistent with

  a growing literature based on the two-way fixed effects model of Abowd,

  Kramarz, and Margolis (1999), we find that firm-specific wage premiums

  explain a significant share of earnings inequality in Canada and

  contribute to the average earnings gap between immigrants and natives.

  In the decade after receiving permanent status, earnings of immigrants

  rise relative to those of natives. Compositional effects due to

  selective outmigration and changing participation play no role in this

  gain. About one -sixth is attributable to movements up the job ladder to

  employers that offer higher pay premiums for all groups, with

  particularly large gains for immigrants from the ``rest of the

  world{''''}countries. Crown Copyright (c) 2021 Published by Elsevier B.V.

  All rights reserved.'
affiliation: 'Dostie, B (Corresponding Author), HEC Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada.

  Dostie, Benoit; Parent, Daniel, HEC Montreal, Montreal, PQ, Canada.

  Li, Jiang, Stat Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada.

  Card, David, Univ Calif Berkeley, Berkeley, CA USA.

  Card, David, NBER, Cambridge, MA USA.'
author: Dostie, Benoit and Li, Jiang and Card, David and Parent, Daniel
author-email: benoit.dostie@hec.ca
author_list:
- family: Dostie
  given: Benoit
- family: Li
  given: Jiang
- family: Card
  given: David
- family: Parent
  given: Daniel
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1016/j.jeconom.2021.07.012
earlyaccessdate: MAR 2023
eissn: 1872-6895
files: []
issn: 0304-4076
journal: JOURNAL OF ECONOMETRICS
keywords: 'Wage differentials; Immigrants; Linked employer -employee data; Firm

  effects'
keywords-plus: 'LABOR-MARKET ACTIVITY; HIGH WAGE WORKERS; WORKPLACE HETEROGENEITY;

  CANADA; PERFORMANCE; SELECTION; MOBILITY; RETURNS; FOREIGN; FAMILY'
language: English
month: APR
number: '2'
number-of-cited-references: '55'
pages: 544-567
papis_id: 042fd44dba08f298fc7844c7779e00f3
ref: Dostie2023employerpolicies
times-cited: '2'
title: Employer policies and the immigrant-native earnings gap
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000993998400001
usage-count-last-180-days: '2'
usage-count-since-2013: '2'
volume: '233'
web-of-science-categories: 'Economics; Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications;
  Social Sciences,

  Mathematical Methods'
year: '2023'