Attributs linguistiques et revenus de travail, Québec : cadre d’analyse, résultats pour 2010 et comparaison 1970–2010
Language skills and labour income, Québec: analytical framework, results for 2010 and a comparison 1970–2010

Author(s): François Vaillancourt, Marc-André Fontaine
Subject(s): Economy, Labor relations
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Ekonomicznego w Poznaniu
Keywords: language ethnicity;human capital;earnings;Quebec;
Summary/Abstract: This text presents how to treat language as an object of economic analysis, either as a currency or as a combination of ethnic attribute and human capital. This done we present unpublished results on the labour market returns to the linguistic attributes of men and women in Quebec in 2010. These results indicate that bilingualism pays more thanunilingualism for anglophones, francophones and allophones and that francophones are better paid in general than the other two language groups for a similar level of education and experience. The comparison between 1970 and 2010 shows an improvement in the socioeconomic status of French and Francophones between these two years. This is explained by migratory flows, an improvement in the schooling of francophones and growth in Francophone ownership of the Quebec economy.

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