ABSTRACT
This chapter studies the economic assimilation of Indian immigrants living in Canada for the census periods 2001–2021. This chapter estimates within-cohort earnings growth of Indian immigrants relative to Canadian-born with comparisons to Chinese and Other South Asian immigrants. I find that the economic assimilation of Indian immigrants relative to native-born Canadians tends to be stronger among earlier cohorts of Indian men because their entry earnings were already quite high. Their earnings have also grown overtime. But earlier arrivals of Indian women who had lower entry earnings have shown very consistent and steep earnings growth across census years. Entry wages among Indian men have decreased somewhat relative to native-born Canadians and their earnings growth across census years has not been as steep compared to Indian women as well as compared to Other South Asian and Chinese men.
