Characteristics and labour market outcomes of internationally-educated immigrants : Caractéristiques et résultats sur le marché du travail des immigrants formés à l'étranger

The purpose of this report is thus to develop a better understanding of the integration of internationally-educated immigrants into the Canadian labour market compared to immigrants who completed their education in Canada and the Canadian-born with a postsecondary education. [...] As a starting point in understanding the integration of internationally-educated immigrants into the Canadian labour market, it is important to learn more about the size and characteristics of this population compared to immigrants who completed their education in Canada and the Canadian-born with a postsecondary education. [...] Given the purpose of this report, which is to develop a better understanding of the integration of internationally-educated immigrants into the Canadian labour market, the population of study has been limited to people in the core working- age group of 25 to 64 as these individuals are more likely to have completed their postsecondary education and be available for full-time work and less likely t [...] In fact, while about 87% of the 516,700 very-recent immigrants with postsecondary education and 74% of the 391,400 recent immigrants with a postsecondary education reported completing their certificate, diploma or degree outside the country, this was the case for about 38% of the 1.7 million immigrants with postsecondary education established in the country for more than ten years (Table 1). [...] Quebec: Province with the second-highest share of internationally- educated in the core working-age group who arrived in Canada in the past five years As shown in Table 4, at 19%, Quebec ranked second in terms of the share of very- recent internationally-educated immigrants in the core working-age group of 25 to 64.