Table 5
Changes in log entry earnings1 at various points in the earnings distribution
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| Raw data | Holding education and immigrant class distribution fixed | Holding all immigrant characteristics fixed | Changes accounted for by | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Changing education and class distribution | Change in all immigrant characteristics | ||||
| log points | |||||
| Men | |||||
| 1991 cohort to 2000 cohort | |||||
| At 15th percentile | 0.16 | 0.16 | 0.14 | 0.00 | 0.02 |
| At 50th percentile | 0.23 | 0.13 | 0.13 | 0.10 | 0.10 |
| At 90th percentile | 0.36 | 0.11 | 0.06 | 0.24 | 0.30 |
| 2000 cohort to 2004 cohort | |||||
| At 15th percentile | -0.17 | -0.18 | -0.13 | 0.01 | -0.04 |
| At 50th percentile | -0.17 | -0.18 | -0.16 | 0.03 | -0.01 |
| At 90th percentile | -0.28 | -0.27 | -0.26 | 0.01 | -0.02 |
| Women | |||||
| 1991 cohort to 2000 cohort | |||||
| At 15th percentile | -0.14 | -0.15 | -0.09 | 0.01 | -0.06 |
| At 50th percentile | 0.02 | -0.07 | -0.02 | 0.08 | 0.03 |
| At 90th percentile | 0.18 | -0.02 | -0.02 | 0.20 | 0.20 |
| 2000 cohort to 2004 cohort | |||||
| At 15th percentile | -0.11 | -0.15 | -0.09 | -0.04 | -0.02 |
| At 50th percentile | -0.12 | -0.15 | -0.13 | 0.03 | 0.01 |
| At 90th percentile | -0.08 | -0.08 | -0.08 | 0.00 | 0.00 |
Earnings during first two full years in Canada.
Source(s):
Statistics Canada, Longitudinal Administrative Databank and Longitudinal Immigration Database.
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