Income dynamics of new immigrants to Canada
This report highlights some recent changes in the relative income of new immigrants to Canada. During the period 2014 to 2018 their relative income went from 55 per cent to 78 per cent of that of all Canadian tax filers. We explore some of the characteristics of that change (source countries, destination province, education and occupation, etc.) and a potential impact on measured productivity growth of Canada.
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The labour market outcomes of new immigrants to Canada improved considerably during the 2010s. From 2014 to 2018, the median total income of new-immigrant tax-filers rose from 55 per cent of the median total income of all tax-filers, to 78 per cent. This reverses some of the relative losses that new immigrants experienced during the 1980s and afterwards.
Parliamentary Budget Officer