Immigration, Assimilation and Inequality of Income Distribution in Canada

David M. Gray, Jeffrey Mills and Sourushe Zandvakili ()

University of Cincinnati, Economics Working Papers Series from University of Cincinnati, Department of Economics

Abstract: This paper examines income inequality between cohorts of immigrant workers and native workers in the Canadian labour force. The degree of inequality is measured by the decomposable Theil generalized entropy measures. We provide comparisons of the patterns of inequality among immigrant status groups and a treatment of trends realized over the 1990s. The primary results indicate that the degree of income inequality between natives and immigrants is positive but not important in magnitude, and it remained stable over much of the 1990s. The structure of income differentials associated with education levels and age groups appear to be roughly similar within immigrant groups and for Canadian-born workers. The findings also indicate that the degree of income equality within the cohort of immigrants that arrived after 1981 is much higher than the degree within the Canadian-born labour force or within the cohort of immigrants that arrived before 1981.

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Date: 2003

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