Visible minorities in Canada's workplaces

The goal of this paper is to explore the possibilities for the future of our ethnically diverse labour market in the face of these changes. [...] However, given that exogamous marriage is increasingly common and that a large part of the growth of the visible minority population is driven by births, a large fraction of the visible minority population could be multiple-origin by 2017. [...] For example, almost half the population of the City of Vancouver, and almost 60% of 6 that of its suburb, Richmond, is visible minority. [...] Recent work (Pendakur and Pendakur 2002b) suggests that there is a weak positive correlation between the numbers of visible minority residents in a city and the relative earnings of visible minority workers in that city. [...] Statistics Canada (2005, DRAFT) suggests that approximately half the residents of the Toronto and Vancouver CMAs, and approximately one-fifth of the residents of the Montreal CMA, will be visible minorities by that time.