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Table 3
Labour force participation and earnings of immigrants' children

	Recent immigrant	Established immigrant	Two immigrant parents	One immigrant parent	Third generation and higher
	First generation		Second generation		Third generation and higher
Men	percent
Employed all year	65.2	73.9	66.7	66.5	67.1
Unemployed at least once in year	19.9	16.1	27.0	25.0	24.9
No work all year¹	F	F	4.0	8.8	6.9
Median earnings	in 2004 dollars
Hourly, main job	11.03	13.59	14.12	14.07	13.08
Annual, all jobs (in thousands	23.8	27.2	28.7	25.9	25.5
Women	percent
Employed all year	32.2²	71.2	75.7²	59.0	55.6
Unemployed at least once in year	25.8	13.3	9.6²	26.6	21.9
No work all year¹	48.8²	13.9	9.8²	12.1	20.2
Median earnings	in 2004 dollars
Hourly, main job	9.28²	14.58	15.92²	12.37	11.26
Annual, all jobs (in thousands)	15.4	23.6	27.5²	21.5	18.2
1. Unemployed or not in the labour force. 2. Significantly different from the third generation and higher, at the 0.05 level or less. Note: First year in sample and excluding full- and part-time students. Data source: Statistics Canada, Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 1996 to 2001 and 1999 to 2004. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, Perspectives on Labour and Income, volume 8, number 10, "Economic integration of immigrants' children", catalogue number 75-001-XWE. Table source: Statistics Canada, 2007, Perspectives on Labour and Income, volume 8, number 10, "Economic integration of immigrants' children", catalogue number 75-001-XWE.