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Xiaoyi Yan

Director, Budgetary Analysis

Xiaoyi Yan is Director of Budgetary Analysis. She leads the PBO’s analytical work on government budgets and Electoral Platform Costing.

Prior to joining the PBO, she worked in various policy departments and agencies including the last 6 years at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada as Director of Policy Research. She also worked at Health Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada in various capacities responsible for research and analysis. She served as a member and National Correspondent for Canada at the OECD’s Expert Group on Migration from 2015 to 2018 and taught Economics for many years in universities in Canada and China.

Xiaoyi holds a PhD in Economics from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Latest publications

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Nous examinons certaines des caract\u00e9ristiques de ce changement (pays d\u2019origine, province de destination, \u00e9tudes et profession, etc.) et son incidence possible sur la croissance de la productivit\u00e9 mesur\u00e9e au Canada.","highlights":[{"content":{"en":"The federal government announced substantial increases in its planned immigration targets: reaching 500 thousand people for the years 2025 and 2026. In this report, we look at some recent evolution of median total incomes of new immigrants so as to inform expectations regarding that policy change.","fr":"Le gouvernement f\u00e9d\u00e9ral a annonc\u00e9 une augmentation substantielle de ses cibles d\u2019immigration pr\u00e9vues, soit 500 000 personnes pour les ann\u00e9es 2025 et 2026. Dans ce rapport, nous examinons l\u2019\u00e9volution r\u00e9cente du revenu total m\u00e9dian des nouveaux immigrants afin d\u2019\u00e9clairer les attentes \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e9gard de ce changement de politique"}},{"content":{"en":"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.","fr":"De 2014 \u00e0 2018, le revenu total m\u00e9dian des nouveaux immigrants qui ont rempli une d\u00e9claration de revenu est pass\u00e9 de 55 \u00e0 78 % du revenu total m\u00e9dian de l\u2019ensemble des d\u00e9clarants."}},{"content":{"en":"Trends driving that change include greater pre-landing Canadian work experience, a shift of source-countries to south Asia, and greater family connections of incoming migrants. These trends are discernible from the mid-2000s.","fr":"Les tendances \u00e0 l\u2019origine de ce changement comprennent une plus grande exp\u00e9rience de travail au Canada avant l\u2019\u00e9tablissement, un d\u00e9placement des pays sources vers l\u2019Asie du Sud et un plus grand nombre de liens familiaux des migrants entrants. Ces tendances sont perceptibles depuis le milieu des ann\u00e9es 2000."}},{"content":{"en":"Immigrants from India made the largest contribution to that gain.","fr":"Les immigrants de l\u2019Inde ont contribu\u00e9 le plus \u00e0 ce gain."}},{"content":{"en":"The increase in relative income is dominated by professional groups such as engineers, applied scientists, etc.","fr":"L\u2019augmentation du revenu relatif touche majoritairement des groupes professionnels comme les ing\u00e9nieurs, les chercheurs en sciences appliqu\u00e9es, etc."}},{"content":{"en":"A disproportionate share of the reduced income gap between new immigrants and all tax filers (45% in 2014, versus 22% in 2018) is attributable to those living in Ontario.","fr":"Une part disproportionn\u00e9e de la r\u00e9duction de l\u2019\u00e9cart de revenu entre les nouveaux immigrants et l\u2019ensemble des d\u00e9clarants (45 % en 2014, comparativement \u00e0 22 % en 2018) est attribuable aux personnes vivant en Ontario."}},{"content":{"en":"Lower relative incomes of new immigrants could create a temporary drag on Canadian measured productivity growth through a compositional effect. Though that effect would be removed as the cohort of new immigrants integrate into the labour force, the arrival of new immigrants each year would re-initiate the impact. The recent smaller gaps between the incomes of new immigrants and the Canadian median could reduce that compositional effect on measured productivity. At the outer bound, productivity growth in Canada could be increased by as much as 0.21 percentage points if the gap were eliminated.","fr":"Les revenus relatifs plus faibles des nouveaux immigrants pourraient freiner temporairement la croissance de la productivit\u00e9 mesur\u00e9e au Canada par le biais d\u2019un effet de composition. Bien que cet effet serait \u00e9limin\u00e9 \u00e0 mesure que la cohorte de nouveaux immigrants s\u2019int\u00e8gre \u00e0 la population active, l\u2019arriv\u00e9e de nouveaux immigrants chaque ann\u00e9e r\u00e9activerait l\u2019incidence. La r\u00e9duction r\u00e9cente de l\u2019\u00e9cart entre les revenus des nouveaux immigrants et la m\u00e9diane canadienne pourrait r\u00e9duire cet effet de composition sur la productivit\u00e9 mesur\u00e9e. \u00c0 la limite ext\u00e9rieure, la croissance de la productivit\u00e9 au Canada pourrait augmenter jusqu\u2019\u00e0 0,21 point de pourcentage si l\u2019\u00e9cart \u00e9tait \u00e9limin\u00e9."}}]},"updated_at":"2024-03-21T22:13:20.000000Z","type":"RP","slug":"RP-2324-023-S--income-dynamics-new-immigrants-canada--dynamique-revenus-nouveaux-immigrants-canada","permalinks":{"en":{"website":"https:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.ca\/en\/publications\/RP-2324-023-S--income-dynamics-new-immigrants-canada--dynamique-revenus-nouveaux-immigrants-canada","preview":"https:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.ca\/en\/publications\/RP-2324-023-S--income-dynamics-new-immigrants-canada--dynamique-revenus-nouveaux-immigrants-canada"},"fr":{"website":"https:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.ca\/fr\/publications\/RP-2324-023-S--income-dynamics-new-immigrants-canada--dynamique-revenus-nouveaux-immigrants-canada","preview":"https:\/\/www.pbo-dpb.ca\/fr\/publications\/RP-2324-023-S--income-dynamics-new-immigrants-canada--dynamique-revenus-nouveaux-immigrants-canada"}},"artifacts":{"main":{"en":{"public":"https:\/\/distribution-a617274656661637473.pbo-dpb.ca\/e44babfd5c3811a7d6abb04890ce04c5cddb1752f3a1d18463c8446d5bfa03ce"},"fr":{"public":"https:\/\/distribution-a617274656661637473.pbo-dpb.ca\/d19264b2f22d0d1fbef14936f313562a7eb81ac7b5343b7c361bb56b2a737255"}}},"coverpages":{"distribution":{"fr":{"small":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/c60cfac989e3f8a8283fb346d2fce754658e56f6eecb0c415bfd7ae7b98e159b","large":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/a2f7d37e3c22a6775a4bc3f44f3ca421015e91985a79708e91bdb8e5377c4b51","h150_png_optimized":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/1b412fbd00b394be4184a1ba9263ad3bc48c18f29d75d77e48cd37af0a38728b","h150_webp":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/cd84d77ce0803664a687aa2af3851c45abab9104176c70472837dfc272bd94a9","h300_png_optimized":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/de3aef412bfc3b1e1fde7dee277268b519909f6560aa9cfd7b4d57046494c88f","h300_webp":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/1f3e213d492e005a204cd637dba5f8fa92ad02ff93dd371576bc4f51bd0ba252","h600_png_optimized":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/751ebeecc61ff571172b528de26ce0937c4c84e150b21577c2c01646937e6300","h600_webp":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/c9fa4b4e942b52624af3a173ca6b6c6b9ec4abd15979bd8f33e8e1ea89d919f5"},"en":{"small":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/18d9890bb6c280820667fe8a89d478ef5f88e95210d45be8970a1f6a0d2db2c4","large":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/208d933ba0415308bfd51abe56982a5311498e5e76b39931ea65253ecee85482","h150_png_optimized":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/d5c6c3fc506b333b1e3d782ab704f9e9ee21b928b34ca3118a6bc21f2e270d42","h150_webp":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/24ec2498f2c3fbf5543bb45c8327424ca0b301237a77b9f7785500bef6d5c60e","h300_png_optimized":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/642fbd22e92c4de1d054fce43e6ae8aabd33aade8ffcc9d106f15384a5444054","h300_webp":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/efcf1ae76fa3712046e617cc65049b4f45d62731b01c65e75ccb5e784298b960","h600_png_optimized":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/e990f7d23570a4ae71d3b725391490d58740d62673151621de6ffdbe5358db15","h600_webp":"https:\/\/distribution-i696d61676573.pbo-dpb.ca\/58a9998bd7195e468f18d8a52c199108019cd4b84a05c39d4fd2e514d3a6d32b"}}},"bills":[],"bibtex":{"en":"@techreport{PBO-RP2324023S,\n author={Bagnoli, Philip and Matier, Chris and Yan, Xiaoyi},\n title={Income dynamics of new immigrants to Canada},\n institution={The Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer},\n year=2024,\n \n address = \u0022Ottawa, ON\u0022\n}","fr":"@techreport{DPB-RP2324023S,\n author={Bagnoli, Philip and Matier, Chris and Yan, Xiaoyi},\n title={Dynamique des revenus des nouveaux immigrants au Canada},\n institution={Bureau du directeur parlementaire du budget},\n year=2024,\n \n address = \u0022Ottawa, ON\u0022\n}"}}