In this article, the effect of education on the skill level of jobs held by Indigenous people working in the Canadian forest industry is examined. A skill index based on detailed occupation is used as the dependent variable in ordered logit models estimated using data from Statistics Canada’s 2011 National Household Survey (NHS). Results are obtained by gender. In the case of men, for Métis (a specific mixed European and Indigenous culture) and for First Nations living off reserve estimates of the effect of education are similar to those for non-Indigenous people. The estimated effect is lower for those Indigenous people living on reserve, particularly for those whose employment is also on the reserve. Results for women are similar, though often not statistically significant due to the limited sample size. High school graduation appears insufficient to provide access to better jobs, whereas post-secondary education, including trade certificates and community college, is very effective. The article concludes with a suggestion that, while closing the lag in Indigenous rates of high school education is critical, this must provide a gateway to further education. A discussion provides more policy context.

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加拿大林业产业中土著人获得熟练工作的机会：教育的作用

在本文中，考察了教育对加拿大森林产业中土著人民所从事的工作技能水平的影响。在基于加拿大统计局2011年全国家庭调查（NHS）数据估算的有序logit模型中，将基于详细职业的技能指数用作因变量。结果是按性别获得的。对于男性而言，对于梅蒂斯人（一种特定的欧洲和土著文化的混合体）和原住民来说，依靠储备金对教育效果的估计与非土著人的估计相似。估计的影响对那些生活在保护区中的土著人民，尤其是那些也在保护区工作的土著人而言，影响较小。妇女的结果相似，但由于样本量有限，通常没有统计学意义。高中毕业似乎不足以提供更好的工作，而专上教育，包括商业证书和社区大学，则非常有效。文章最后提出了一个建议，即尽管弥合土著高中教育率的滞后是至关重要的，但这必须提供通往继续教育的途径。讨论提供了更多的政策背景。