CANADIAN EMPLOYMENT RESEARCH FORUM (CERF)
CONFERENCE ON IMMIGRATION

University of Calgary
Thursday May 30 and Friday 31, 2002

Sponsored by:
Canadian Employment Research Forum (CERF)
Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC)
Human Resources Development Canada (HRDC)
Statistics Canada

Thursday, May 30
8:30 - 8:45	Welcome and Opening Comments
8:45 - 10:15	Session I - The Effects of Labour Market Conditions Abdurrahman Aydemir (Statistics Canada) The Effects of Business Cycles on the Labour Market Assimilation of Immigrants David Green (University of British Columbia) and Christopher Worswick(Carleton University) The Earnings Assimilation of Immigrants and the Native-born in Canada: An Investigation of the Importance of Labour Market Entry Cohort and Labour Market Conditions
10:30 - 12:00	Session II - Human Capital Dimensions Ross Finnie (Queen's School of Policy Studies) and Ronald Meng (University of Windsor) Are Immigrants’ Human Capital Skills Discounted in Canada? ( Tables ) Wayne Simpson and Derek Hum (University of Manitoba) Training Activity by Adult Immigrants in Canada
1:30-3:00	Session III - Occupational Dimensions Barry R. Chiswick (University of Illinois at Chicago) Yew Liang Lee and Paul W. Miller (University of Western Australia) Longitudinal Analysis of Immigrant Occupational Mobility: A Test of the Immigrant Assimilation Hypothesis Marc Frenette (Statistics Canada) Do the Falling Earnings of Immigrants Apply to Self-Employed Immigrants?
3:15-5:00	Session IV - Distributional Dimensions David Gray (University of Ottawa) Jeffrey Mills and Sourushe Zandvakili (University of Cincinnati) Immigration, Assimilation and Inequality of Income Distribution in Canada Jean Kunz and Eden Thompson (HRDC) Immigrant Women and the Canadian Labour Market
Friday, May 31
8:30-10:00	Session V - The Adjustment Process Deborah A. Cobb-Clark (Australian National University) Settling In: Public Policy and the Labour Market Adjustment of New Immigrants to Australia Samuel Laryea (HRDC) The Performance of Immigrants in Selected Canadian Cities
10:15-11:45	Session VI - Immigration and Poverty Feng Hou and Garnett Picot (Statistics Canada) Do Changes in Low-Income Rates Among Immigrants Account for Rising Low-Income in Canada? Xuelin Zhang (Statistics Canada) The Wealth Position of Immigrant Families in Canada