Table 6 Comparative wage gain if the immigrants’ matching improves to that of native-born workers—2006 (weighted)
Normalized relatedness index (NRI—for native born) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1.0–0.80 | 0.80–0.60 | 0.60–0.40 | 0.40–0.20 | 0.20–0.00 | Total | |
Number of immigrants | 72,490 | 16,745 | 19,065 | 48,260 | 505,115 | 661,675 |
Total weekly wage bill (×1000) | 82,421 | 18,989 | 17,826 | 41,262 | 394,495 | 554,993 |
Wage gain if move to 1.0–0.8 (%) | 2.59 | 3.99 | 5.26 | 11.66 | ||
Total weekly gain (WG) (×1000) | 492 | 711 | 2170 | 45,998 | 49,372 | |
Number of native-born workers | 1,530,780 | 274,025 | 292,720 | 561,595 | 3,267,460 | 5,926,580 |
Total weekly wage bill (×1000) | 1,657,837 | 345,544 | 317,310 | 563,839 | 3,051,809 | 5,936,339 |
Wage gain if move to 1.0–0.8 (%) | 1.87 | 1.69 | 3.82 | 12.59 | ||
Total weekly gain (WG) (×1000) | 6462 | 5363 | 21,539 | 384,223 | 417,586 | |
TWB(m)/TWB(n) = (554,993/5,936,339) | 9.35 % | |||||
Weekly CG (×1000) | 10,331 | |||||
Annual CG (×1000) | 537,220 | |||||