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This study compares initial (two years after graduation) employment outcomes of 1994 Alberta universities graduates who consider themselves to be members of a visible minority group with employment outcomes of their non-visible minority counterparts. An examination of labour market experiences of visible minority members with high educational qualifications is particularly timely in light of increased demands of the Canadian post-industrial economy for highly skilled labour and a growing proportion of visible minorities among immigrants to Canada. Using the data from the 1997 Alberta Graduate Survey (AGS), this thesis asks whether investments in human capital in the form of post-secondary education by visible minority members and white graduates yield similar returns in the Canadian labour market.;By studying only graduates from Alberta universities, this study controls for the issue of non-recognition of foreign credentials and, as such, overcomes the limitations of past research that has been unable to determine the country of origin of educational qualifications of visible minority members. Therefore, if racial differences in labour market outcomes are observed in this study, non-recognition of foreign credentials cannot be used as the explanation. (Abstract shortened by UMI.).