Table 1
Earnings and low-income rates among selected entering immigrant cohorts relative to the Canadian born

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Earnings and low-income rates among selected entering immigrant cohorts relative to the Canadian born
Immigrant cohorts Relative earnings among men 1 (working full-time, full-year, age 16 to 64) Relative low-income rates (all ages)
1 to 5 years since immigration 6 to 10 years since immigration 1 to 5 years since immigration 6 to 10 years since immigration
  ratio
1975-to-1979 cohorts 0.84 0.87 1.3 1.2
1980-to-1984 cohorts … … … …
1985-to-1989 cohorts 0.67 0.72 2.1 1.9
1990-to-1994 cohorts 0.54 0.69 2.6 1.9
1995-to-1999 cohorts 0.60 … 2.4 …
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Controlling for differences in characteristics between immigrants and the Canadian born.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, census data from Marc Frenette and René Morissette, 2003, Will They Ever Converge? Earnings of Immigrant and Canadian-born Workers over the Last Two Decades, and Garnett Picot and Feng Hou, 2003, The Rise in Low-income Rates Among Immigrants in Canada.