SY224 Study Guide - Final Guide: Bracero Program, Visible Minority, Credentialism And Educational Inflation
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The payment people submit to their families back home. Has affected poorly paid sectors of the labour market in ethnic communities and led to some lay off of immigrants. A way of analyzing the labour market. Adding to our human capital moves us up in the price and competitiveness within the labour market. Theory suggests once we take regional development differences into account, the labour market evaluates people on the basis of their human capital investments and rewards them accordingly. Employers want to be able to pick up workers when demands for labour is high, and pitch them aside when demand for labour is low. Highest poverty levels associated with aboriginals and recent immigrants. Focus on differences between immigrant and native born workers within same racialized groups and genders. Visible minority immigrant women and men have the greatest disadvantage (women being the most). Reproducing through social construction of skill, experience, and education.
