1 LONGITUDINAL ANALYSIS OF EARNINGS ASSIMILATION AMONG IMMIGRANTS IN QUEBEC

A cohort of a 1000 immigrants who entered Quebec in 1989 was followed-up during the subsequent 10 years. We find no evidence of immigrant wage assimilation in this cohort. Our results join a small but growing body of research that shows that there is no evidence of immigrant assimilation in longitudinal data. These negative findings stand in marked contrast to corroboration of assimilation theory in numerous synthetic cohort studies. Our results also show that for this cohort, the immigrant labor market is segmented from the native labor market