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A Different Ontario

24 Jan 2019

This matters, of course, because of the role that ongoing immigration plays in the renewal of Ontario’s labour force, in the context of a relatively low birth rate.3 While the total proportion of Toronto’s population that was born outside of Canada is just under one in two, the proportion of the prime working age population (age 25 to 54) is higher, at just over one in two. [...] In CMAs with populations between 100,000 and 499,999, immigrants form about the same share of the 25 to 54 year-old population as they do of the general population; for smaller cities and towns, however, immigrants form a lesser share of the 25 to 54 year-old population than they do of the general population. [...] The second is that, because of this, the characteristics of bigger-city and smaller-town Ontario will continue to become even more dissimilar over time: the gradual increase in the immigrant share of the province’s population as a whole will reflect the combination of increasingly divergent experiences of growing immigration in large metropolitan areas and declining immigration elsewhere. [...] Toronto, but only One way to put this, which captures the combined effects of the concentration of immigrants, their age and their one per cent of educational attainment is as follows: immigrants of Ontario’s population working age with a university degree represent 10 per cent outside of the eight of the total population of metropolitan Toronto, but only one per cent of Ontario’s population outsi [...] These obstacles can range from language barriers, to a lack of previous work experience in Canada, to difficulties in having foreign academic credentials or professional qualifications recognized in Canada, to experiences of outright discrimination.6 One of the main stories that the census tells, however, is that of the wide variation in the labour-market experiences of immigrants in Ontario.
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ISBN
9781772590845
Pages
26
Published in
Toronto, ON, CA

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