This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income ….), (3) do low-income rates fall as new immigrants acquire Canadian experience, and are there signs that low-income rates …) in the major Canadian cities, to what extent was the deterioration in the city level low-income rates during the 1990s …

During the 1980s and 1990s, immigration was associated with the rise in low-income rates and family-income inequality … in Canada. Over the 2000s, there were significant changes in the labour market and in immigrant selection. This paper … focuses on the direct effect of immigration on the change in low income and family-income inequality over the 1995-to-2010 …

earnings improved between the 1980s and the 1990s. Of all full-time employees, 5% were low-paid and lived in low income … mothers and persons living alone accounted for fully 71% of all full-time workers in low-paid jobs and in low-income, but only … 37% of all full-time workers. While members of these five groups account for the majority of low-paid workers in low-income …

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in … the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration … by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the 1980s but rose in the 1990s. Declining earnings put upward …