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A comparison of labour market outcomes of immigrants and the Canadian-born in 2006

10 Sep 2010

Though these disparities have been widely studied, more attention to the geographic variation of the labour market outcomes is warranted as the labour market position of immigrants and the Canadian-born differ across geographies; therefore, the comparison should be made in the Canadian economy but also in the context of regional and local economies. [...] This paper compares the labour market outcomes, specifically the participation and unemployment rate, and the median incomes, of immigrants and their Canadian-born counterparts using the 2006 Census data at the national and provincial levels, and across the ten largest immigrant-receiving census metropolitan areas (CMAs). [...] According to King (2009), university-educated immigrant earnings reached a 75.5 percent of the earnings of the Canadian-born in 2005, an indication that the deterioration of earnings was not a phenomenon confined to the 1980s and 1990s. [...] As the main interest for the analysis is the labour market outcomes, only immigrants and the Canadian-born population over the age of 15 – those who are able to participate in the labour force – are studied. [...] Census Metropolitan Areas Comparisons In 2006, the immigrant population in Toronto that was over the age of 15 outnumbered the Canadian-born population, while a significant number of immigrants were able to participate in the labour force in Vancouver and Montreal.
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Authors

Lee, Iris Migyung

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22
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