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

Comparative Migration Studies

Table 6 Difference in rank of income, Canada and Sweden, 2015

	Canada			Sweden
	coef	se	sig	coef	se	sig
Females
Observations	6,921,925			2,081,864
	R2		0.18			0.25
Native-born not Polish (comparison)]
Native-born with 1 parent born in Poland	0.02	0.01	***	− 0.01	0.00	***	†
Native-born with 2 parents born in Poland	0.02	0.00	***	0.00	0.01		†
Immigrant from Poland	− 0.26	0.00	***	− 0.26	0.00	***
Other Immigrant	− 0.27	0.00	***	− 0.25	0.00	***	†
Male
Observations	7,009,840			2,143,148
R2		0.19			0.22
Native-born not Polish (comparison)]
Native-born with 1 parent born in Poland	0.02	0.01	***	− 0.02	0.00	***	†
Native-born with 2 parents born in Poland	0.02	0.00	***	− 0.04	0.01	***	†
Immigrant from Poland	− 0.21	0.00	***	− 0.23	0.00	***	†
Other Immigrant	− 0.24	0.00	***	− 0.26	0.00	***	†

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
^†Indicates that the coefficients for Canada and Sweden are statistically different from each other