The economic lockdowns and travel border restrictions during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic impacted immigrants to Canada in many ways. Previous findings showed that immigrants admitted in 2019, just before the start of the pandemic, were particularly vulnerable. They experienced a drop in their median entry wage, reported one year after admission, unlike previously admitted immigrants, who saw consistently increasing median entry wages over the previous 10 years.
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