Canada has long relied on women from poorer countries to fill gaps in its paid care market. Yet little is known about the upward or downward trajectories of immigrant women who arrive intending to work in lower status jobs in care. Using a unique administrative dataset (the Longitudinal Immigration Database), the author estimates a series of growth curve models of employment income for 220,265 non-professional, non-managerial immigrant women working in Canada between 1993 and 2015. Results reinforce prior suggestions of a “care [wage] penalty”, as all intended care workers, besides nurse aides, fare worse over two decades in the labour market than comparable intended non-care workers. Yet entry class is also found to play a role. Women who arrive to Canada though the Live-in Caregiver Program--which has the explicit goal of providing in-home care for children, the elderly, and people with disabilities--have higher employment income than comparable immigrant women reporting the intention to work in homecare who entered via the family reunification and economic immigration streams.

加拿大长期以来一直依靠较贫穷国家的妇女来填补其有偿护理市场的空白。然而，对于打算在较低地位的护理工作的移民妇女的上升或下降轨迹知之甚少。使用一个独特的行政数据集（纵向移民数据库），作者估计了1993年至2015年间在加拿大工作的220265名非职业，非管理性移民妇女的就业收入增长曲线模型。 “护理[工资]罚则”，因为除护士助手外，所有预期护理工作者在劳动力市场上的表现在二十年内都比同类预期非护理工作者要差。然而，入门级班级也发挥了作用。