Table 3.
Selected labor market outcomes for Mexican migrants working in Canada and the United States.
| Outcome | Migrants to Canada |
Migrants to the United States | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Legal residents |
Temporary workers |
Undocumented workers |
Total | ||
| Occupation | |||||
| Manual | 2.2% | 75% | 4.2% | 73.3% | 62.7% |
| Agricultural | 97.8% | 25 | 95.8 | 26.7 | 37.3 |
| Job details | |||||
| Hourly wage* | $11.72 | $14.13 | $10.72 | $9.06 | $9.45 |
| Hours worked/week | 52.2 | 42.6 | 48.2 | 44.2 | 44.9 |
| Months worked | 5.2 | 8.5 | 4.4 | 9.8 | 8.9 |
| Total hours of work | 1 085.8 | 1 448.4 | 848.3 | 1 732.6 | 1 598.4 |
| Total earnings | $12 725 | $20 466 | $9 093 | $15 698 | $15 105 |
| Number of migrants | 45 | 4 | 24 | 104 | 132 |
*
Wage in 2010 U.S. Dollars