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The rationale behind this exclusion is that any post immigration investment in education is likely to raise the return to foreign-obtained schooling and hence will bias upward the estimate of the source country schooling quality (Duleep and Regets, 1999).
While both the pre and post immigration context can influence health and help seeking, [ 8, 10, 13] research rarely accounts for immigrant source region.
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On average, CE immigrants did have some moderate advantages in post-immigration earnings over FE immigrants.
The post-immigration earnings of CE immigrant women without prior Canadian work experience were similar to those of FE immigrant women.
More years of Canadian work or study experience were not associated with an extra gain in post-immigration earnings for CE immigrant women when the earnings level before immigration was controlled for (Table 6).
The results suggest that the key factor differentiating the post-immigration earnings of CE immigrants from the earnings of the Canadian-born population and FE immigrants is whether international students held a well-paid job in Canada before becoming permanent residents.
In our empirical analysis, we first estimate a restricted version of equation (1) where we set the returns to schooling for both immigrants and Italians to be the same (i.e. δ 3 =0) and where we do not differentiate between pre- and post-immigration work experience for immigrants (i.e. δ 4 =δ 5 ).
However, as long as CE immigrant women had prior Canadian work experience, they surpassed FE immigrant women in post-immigration earnings by a wide margin, particularly in the 2006 cohort.
The effect of the earnings level before immigration on post-immigration earnings was much larger for CE immigrant women than for CE immigrant men.
These results may suggest that the level of pre-landing Canadian earnings plays an increasing role in differentiating the post-immigration labour market outcomes of university-educated immigrants.
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