Technological Change, Occupational Tasks and Declining Immigrant Outcomes: Implications for Earnings and Income Inequality in Canada

The earnings and occupational task requirements of immigrants to Canada are analyzed. The growing education levels of immigrants in the 1990s have not led to a large improvement in earnings as one might expect if growing computerization and the resulting technological change was leading to a rising

本研究对加拿大移民的收入水平与职业任务要求展开分析。尽管1990年代加拿大移民的受教育程度不断提升，但并未如预期般实现收入的大幅增长——而倘若当时日益普及的计算机化及由此催生的技术变革正推动收入水平上行，本应出现这样的收入改善。