Social capital and labour market outcomes for South Asia-born immigrants in Canada

Nanavati, Arti U. 1954- (Author). Canadian Electronic Library (Firm) (Added Author). Coherent Digital (Firm) (Added Author). Metropolis British Columbia, Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity (Added Author).

Summary: This paper examines the role of social capital in impacting labour market outcomes of South Asia-born immigrants in Canada using both quantitative and qualitative methodologies. Logistic regressions are used to predict the role of social capital in having gainful work, adopting informal job search methods, and employment in public sector. Earning functions to explain the impact on earnings of various variables including social capital. The results indicate that social capital is a significant predictor in impacting labour market outcomes but not in explaining variation in earnings. The survey of a few immigrants as well as informal interactions with them at places of religion, community centres, and so forth in Vancouver helped extract their views/experiences related to the role of social networking and suggestions regarding socio-economic policies that could facilitate immigrants' integration in the labour market of Canada. The paper concludes with an emphasis on the need for a database that is large enough to analyze the impact of social capital disaggregated for ethnic identity and gender. This will help induce more research in this relatively unexplored area and will help make economics "inclusive" of social phenomena for explaining economic performance.

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Physical Description: 1 electronic text (40 p.) : digital file.
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Publisher: Vancouver, B.C. : Metropolis British Columbia, Centre of Excellence for Research on Immigration and Diversity, 2009

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General Note:	"October 2009." CatMonthString:january.23 Issued as part of the desLibris documents collection. Multi-User.
Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references (p. 38-40).
Formatted Contents Note:	Abstract -- Introduction -- Section I -- Data -- Methodology -- Conceptual framework and hypotheses -- Sample characteristics of immigrants to Canada -- Section II -- Logistic regression results (social capital, method I) -- Logistic regression results (social capital, method II) -- Earnings function (social capital, method I) -- Earnings function (social capital, method II) -- Survey findings -- Section III -- Appendix 1. Variable descriptions -- Dependent variables -- Independent variables -- References.
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