ABSTRACT
This chapter provides a description of the relative earnings of specific groups of immigrants in the urban areas of the United States, Canada, and Australia. Comparative earnings data at the national level have been presented by Borjas, Chiswick, and Saunders and King. The chapter describes both cross-national and interurban, for groups intended to be comparable in terms of ethnic and cultural background. It shows interurban variations in the position of specific groups in the United States, and the relative uniformity of the experience of specific groups among the urban areas of Canada and Australia, is an important part of the context-specificity of immigrant group status. Black immigrants to the United States and Canada are primarily of Caribbean or West Indian origins. The degree of concentration of immigrants in particular urban centers is more extreme in the United States than in either Canada or Australia.
