Immigration, Low Income and Income Inequality in Canada: What?s New in the 2000s?

Feng Hou and Garnett Picot

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract:

During the 1980s and 1990s, immigration was associated with the rise in low-income rates and family-income inequality in Canada. Over the 2000s, there were significant changes in the labour market and in immigrant selection. This paper focuses on the direct effect of immigration on the change in low income and family-income inequality over the 1995-to-2010 period. The paper outlines recent trends in low-income rates and income inequality for both the Canadian-born and immigrants. The low-income rate in Canada fell during the 2000s. Was this driven in part by changes in economic outcomes among immigrants? Inequality increased considerably in the late 1990s. Did immigration contribute to this increase?

Keywords: Ethnic diversity and immigration; Immigrants and non-permanent residents; Income; pensions; spending and wealth; Labour; Labour market and income; Low income and inequality; Wages; salaries and other earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-12-15
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