Examining the Determinants of Managers' Hiring Attitudes Towards Immigrant Workers: Evidence from an Employer Survey

Tony Fang, Tingting Zhang () and John Hartley
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Tingting Zhang: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
John Hartley: Memorial University of Newfoundland

No 16219, IZA Discussion Papers from Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)

Abstract: Using a representative survey of 801 employers across Atlantic Canada, we empirically test various factors associated with employer hiring attitudes towards international migrants. Our results indicate that employers who hired international immigrants in the past 12 months exhibited more positive attitudes towards them, consistent with the contact theory. We also find provincial variations in hiring attitudes in that employers in Nova Scotia, Newfoundland, and PEI had more positive attitudes than those in New Brunswick. In addition, employers in the public sector organizations held more positive perceptions than those in the private sector. Although the coefficients for rural-urban divide and organizational sizes have the expected signs but most of them are statistically insignificant. There are no clear patterns cross industries. Interpretations for our main findings are offered, along with policy and practice implications

Keywords: international immigrants; labour and skill shortages; employer hiring attitudes; employer survey; Atlantic Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J23 J61 J63 J68 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 40 pages
Date: 2023-06
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-lma, nep-mig and nep-ure
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Published - published online in: Journal of Immigrants and Refugee Studies , 11 June 2023

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