Labour market outcomes of immigrant and racial minority university graduates in Canada

With the aging of the Canadian population and its persistently low fertility rates the success of the Knowledge Based Economy (KBE) is expected to depend on the economic integration of immigrant racial minorities. [...] In comparing the earnings of immigrant and racial minority groups with a reference group of white, non-immigrants, we adopt a social inequality perspective for the identification of groups that vary in their economic integration within Canadian society, and pose this question: does Page 5 the choice of FOS significantly influence an immigrant’s successful economic integration into the Canadian lab [...] More significant than the increase in the proportion of immigrants within the Canadian population has been the increase in the proportion of racial minorities. [...] School-to-Work Transitions of Immigrants Understanding the nature of the linkage between education and work is an essential part of any assessment of the integration process. [...] This stage of the analysis was intended to estimate the extent of the earnings differential between the reference group and the other social groups, especially immigrants.