Distributed by the Government of Canada Depository Services Program. Issued also in French under title: Situation économique et sociale des immigrants au Canada, recherche et élaboration de données à Statistique Canada.

Includes bibliographical references.

Introduction -- Measuring economic outcomes -- Declining entry-level earnings from the early 1980s to the early 2000s -- Deteriorating low-income position of recent immigrants -- Why is there a decline in relative entry-level earnings among recent immigrants? -- Did changing the immigration selection rules improve economic outcomes? -- Educational and economic outcomes for second-generation Canadians: the children of immigrants -- Entering immigrants' perspectives on life in Canada, and social outcomes -- Other Statistics Canada research -- Data sources and data development -- Effect of immigration on social cohesion in Canada -- Conclusion -- Bibliography.

Issued by: Business and Labour Market Analysis Division.