Earnings of Immigrant Classes in the Early 1980s in Canada: A Re-examination

Arnold de Silva

Canadian Public Policy, 1997, vol. 23, issue 2, 179-202

Abstract: It is widely believed that immigrants admitted on compassionate grounds such as refugees tend to perform poorly compared with immigrants selected for their skills. Recently, Statistics Canada has assembled a longitudinal Immigration Database (IMBD) which provides a unique opportunity to examine whether the above view is correct. Relying on a subsample of male immigrants drawn from IMBD, the present study finds evidence of a rapid convergence in earnings among immigrant classes over time. From a policy perspective, the main conclusion is that age at entry is probably more important than many of the other immigrant attributes reported at landing.

Date: 1997
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