Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

Xiaoyi Yan

Director, Budgetary Analysis

Xiaoyi Yan is Director of Budgetary Analysis. She leads the PBO’s analytical work on government budgets and Electoral Platform Costing.

Prior to joining the PBO, she worked in various policy departments and agencies including the last 6 years at Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada as Director of Policy Research. She also worked at Health Canada, Employment and Social Development Canada, Canada Revenue Agency and Statistics Canada in various capacities responsible for research and analysis. She served as a member and National Correspondent for Canada at the OECD’s Expert Group on Migration from 2015 to 2018 and taught Economics for many years in universities in Canada and China.

Xiaoyi holds a PhD in Economics from Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada.

Latest publications

    Income dynamics of new immigrants to Canada
    This report highlights some recent changes in the relative income of new immigrants to Canada. During the period 2014 to 2018 their relative income went from 55 per cent to 78 per cent of that of all Canadian tax filers. We explore some of the characteristics of that change (source countries, destination province, education and occupation, etc.) and a potential impact on measured productivity growth of Canada.