Immigrants face growing economic mobility gap:
Children of Chinese and South Asian immigrants to Canada do dramatically better over time than the offspring of blacks, Filipinos and Latin Americans, new census data reveal.
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The census data found that 60 per cent of second-generation Chinese immigrants had university degrees, compared with 52 per cent of South Asians, 36 per cent of Filipinos, 32 per cent of blacks and 23 per cent of Latin Americans.
human capital matters.
Ikram 10:43 am on October 7, 2008 Permalink |
Arghh. This is an article by Maria Jiminez (don’t be fooled by the name, she’s culturally Anglo), and it’s as frustrating and ignorant as everyhting she writes on this topic. She has an agenda, and it drives me nuts.
First — read the Sept 22 original study
Key line from the abstract:
Then read this Oct 2 paper
Key line from the abstract.
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The latter is by Aydemir, Chen, and Corak — authors with a good track record (though Hou, from the first paper, has also done good work). Clearly, the data are not clear.
There’s a lot more to all this. Bear in mind that immigration really increased only in 1988 — from 60K a year to about 250K a year, and from mostly European to overwhelmingly Asian. The Canadian-born children of Canada’s millenial immigration boom are not yet in the labour market. The questions being asked can’t yet be answered.
razib 1:10 pm on October 7, 2008 Permalink |
thanks for the link to original report!
Ikram 1:49 pm on October 7, 2008 Permalink |
One more thing — Aydemir, Chen and Corak are asking a question that is on the minds of many non-white Canadian — if the bitter “Canadian dream” of Desi, Black, and Chinese taxi-driving doctors and coffee-serving PhDs is going to be replicated by their Canadian-born children. It’s the immigrant’s anxiety – do my children have a hope of a better life?
Aydemir et. al. give us hints, probably fleshed out in more detail in a coming paper of what the answer is. Yes. Unless you are black.
See table 11. Then think about systemic discrimination and affirmative action.