L'assimilation economique des immigrants est une preoccupation cle pour les economistes et les responsables de l'elaboration des politiques. De nombreuses etudes portent sur l'assimilation des immigrants en ce qui a trait au revenu. La presente examine la question du point de vue de la richesse...

Par le passe, les familles d'immigrants en age de travailler dans les grandes agglomerations urbaines du Canada presentaient des taux de propriete de l'habitation superieurs a ceux de la population de souche. Ces 20 dernieres annees cependant, l'avantage est passe a la population de souche a...

In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher homeownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past twenty years however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of homeownership among the...

The economic assimilation of immigrants is a key concern for economists and policy makers. The topic has been widely explored in terms of earnings assimilation of immigrants. Using the 1999 Survey of Financial Security, this study attempts to look at the issue from the wealth perspective....

Bien qu'il existe d'abondantes etudes exposant les differences de revenu entre les immigrants et les autochtones ou entre les groupes d'immigrants eux meme, ces etudes ne tiennent pas compte de la distribution ni de la concentration des revenus. Comme ces deux aspects sont importants pour...

While there are many studies on differences in earnings between immigrants and the native-born or among immigrant groups, they ignore the distribution and concentration of income. These aspects are important for understanding the distribution of economic welfare and consumer behaviour among...

Nous analysons la mobilite intergenerationnelle du revenu des Canadiens nes de parents immigrants d'apres les donnees du Recensement de 2001. Nous brossons un portrait detaille de la population canadienne et fournissons des estimations de la mobilite intergenerationnelle chez les enfants...

We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of immigrants from 70 countries. The degree of persistence...

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...