Chronic low income and low-income dynamics among recent immigrants : Faible revenu chronique et la dynamique du faible revenu chez les nouveaux immigrants

The first section of the paper examines whether these changes in the supply characteristics coincided with an improvement in the outcomes of immigrants beyond 2000, or reduced the likelihood of chronic low income among the entering cohorts of the late 1990s. [...] In particular, between the early 1990s and 2004, the educational attainment of landed immigrants rose dramatically (the percent with university degrees among those aged 15 years or older rose from 16.9% in 1992 to 44.7% in 2004), many more were in the “skilled” economic class (rising from 28.8% to 51.0% over the period), and among the skilled principal applicants, a higher percentage was in the in [...] The question posed here is, in the face of these changes, and given the overall economic situation of the country, how have the economic outcomes of immigrants changed since 2000?3 More specifically, the post-2000 period was a period of a downturn in the technology sector, which would obviously affect the outcomes of some immigrants. [...] However, in general, the economy was strong over the 2000 to 2004 period, with unemployment rates averaging 7.3%, far below the average 10.3% observed in the first half of the 1990s, or even the 8.8% observed during the second half. [...] By the early 2000s, the probability of entering the first year was rising, and the probability of exiting early in the spell was falling.