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Table 7 Comparative wage gain if the immigrants’ matching improves to that of native-born workers—only for medical degree holders—2006 (weighted)

From: The cost of immigrants’ occupational mismatch and the effectiveness of postarrival policies in Canada

 

Normalized relatedness index (NRI—for native born)

 

1.0–0.8

0.8–0.6

0.6–0.4

0.4–0.2

0.2–0.0

Total

Number of immigrants

2470

1020

30

55

9785

13,360

Total weekly wage bill (predicted)

4,282,243

2,008,230

53,732

75,060

8,001,676

14,420,941

Wage gain if move to 1.0–0.8 (%)

 

2.59

3.99

5.26

11.66

 

Total weekly gain (WG)

 

52,013

2144

3948

932,995

991,101

Number of native-born workers

11,905

3565

100

215

4820

20,600

Total weekly wage bill (predicted)

20,127,973

6,921,288

124,047

210,657

6,453,980

33,837,945

Wage gain if move to 1.0–0.8 (%)

 

1.87

1.69

3.82

12.59

 

Total weekly gain (WG)

 

129,428

2096

8047

812,556

952,128

TWB(m)/TWB(n) = (14,421/33,838)

    

42.62 %

Weekly CG

     

585,326

Annual CG

     

30,436,957

  1. Notes: Since the numbers are rounded, the totals can be slightly different than those in Tables 1 and 3