Fondee sur des donnees de recensement, cette etude du faible revenu chez les immigrants vise a determiner 1) si le taux de faible revenu a augmente chez les cohortes successives de nouveaux immigrants, en valeur absolue, et relativement a celui observe chez les Canadiens de naissance, 2) le cas...

This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income rates increased among successive cohorts of entering immigrants, both in absolute terms and relative to the Canadian born (they have), (2) is this increase due to changes in...

This study examines the relationship between individuals' health status and the socio-economic composition of the neighbourhoods in which they live. It combines individual microdata from Statistics Canada's 1996-97 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) with neighbourhood-level characteristics...

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...

Au cours des annees 1980 et des annees 1990, l?immigration etait associee a la hausse des taux de faible revenu et de l?inegalite des revenus familiaux au Canada. Durant les annees 2000, le marche du travail et le processus de selection des immigrants ont fait l?objet de changements importants....

Canada and the United States have recently experienced an increase in the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs), as well as...

Tant au Canada qu?aux Etats-Unis, on a constate recemment un accroissement de la dispersion regionale des nouveaux immigrants. Selon des etudes menees aux Etats-Unis, une combinaison de facteurs economiques ayant un effet d?eloignement (des Etats tels que la Californie) et de facteurs ayant un...

Previous studies have found a strong association between source-country female labour force participation rates and immigrant women?s labour force participation in the host country. This relationship is interpreted as the enduring influence of source-country gender-role attitudes on immigrant...

Des etudes anterieures ont revele une forte association entre le taux d?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et l?activite des immigrantes dans le pays hote. Cette relation est interpretee comme le resultat de l?influence persistante des attitudes a l?egard des roles sexospecifiques dans le...

The deteriorating economic outcomes among immigrants entering during the 1980s and 1990s have prompted much public concern and policy debate. In 1993, immigrant selection procedures were further modified to increase immigrants' educational attainment and the share of immigrants in the "skilled"...