Polish immigrants and their children in Canada and Sweden, employment status and income patterns

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 5 Difference in log of work related income, Canada and Sweden 2015

	Canada				Sweden
	coef	se	sig	% dif	coef	se	sig	% dif
Females
Observations	6,921,925				2,081,864
R2		0.11				0.18
Native-born not Polish (comparison)
Native-born with 1 parent born in Poland	0.05	0.03	*	0.06	− 0.03	0.01	***	− 0.03
Native-born with 2 parents born in Poland	0.07	0.02	***	0.08	− 0.04	0.02	**	− 0.04
Immigrant from Poland	− 0.87	0.01	***	− 0.58	− 0.85	0.01	***	− 0.57
Other Immigrant	− 0.94	0.01	***	− 0.61	− 0.94	0.00	***	− 0.61
Male
Observations	7,009,840				2,143,148
R2		0.13				0.14
Native-born not Polish (comparison)
Native-born with 1 parent born in Poland	0.07	0.03	**	0.07	− 0.07	0.01	***	− 0.06
Native-born with 2 parents born in Poland	0.05	0.02	***	0.05	− 0.17	0.02	***	− 0.15
Immigrant from Poland	− 0.64	0.01	***	− 0.47	− 0.59	0.01	***	− 0.45
Other Immigrant	− 0.74	0.01	***	− 0.52	− 0.80	0.00	***	− 0.55

The 2016 Census of Canada is a 25% sample of Canadian households. As per Statistics Canada requirement we show the weighted number of observations
Significance: *0.1; **0.05; ***0.01
Regressions control for age, age squared, years in the host country for immigrants, years in the host country squared, schooling, marital status, number of children and residence in the 3 largest cities