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Tougher for immigrants to find work: StatsCan
Canadian Press
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
OTTAWA -- Most of the nearly two million immigrants who arrived in Canada during the 1990s settled in one of the country's 27 census metropolitan areas, but still found it harder to find work than natural-born citizens, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
Almost three-quarters of Canada's immigrants settled in the three largest centres - Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, the report stated. In 1981, just over half settled in these three cities.
Most immigrants stay in the same city they've settled in, the report stated. In addition, most Canadian-born children of immigrants reside in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
The report, based primarily on data from 2001, indicates that the changing origin of Canadian immigrants may account for this trend. Immigrants from East and South Asia have historically settled in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, the report noted, and immigrants from these regions have accounted for an increasing share of all new arrivals in Canada.
Immigration can also account for "considerable shares'' of population in smaller urban areas. For instance, only 1.3 per cent of all recent immigrants settled in Windsor, Ont., yet they represented eight per cent of the total population of that city.
The report also found that recent immigrants were much more likely to work for low wages, were less likely to earn higher wages, and more likely to be unemployed.
For example, recent immigrants in Edmonton had an employment rate of 76.1 per cent, compared with 84 per cent for those born in Canada. Their unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent, compared to 4.1 per cent for Canadian-born workers.
Immigrants also tended to be better educated than native-born Canadians, but in almost every urban region, a higher proportion of recent immigrants were employed in jobs with lower skill requirements than Canada-born employees.
"In fact, recent immigrants with a university degree were much more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to be working in occupations that typically require no formal education,'' the study said.
In Vancouver, 31 per cent of recent immigrants with a university degree were employed in low-skill jobs, compared to only 13 per cent of Canadian-born graduates, for example.
In all metropolitan areas examined in the report, recent immigrants between the ages of 25 and 54 were more likely than Canadian-born citizens to attend school.
About one-quarter of all children up to the age of 17 in Toronto and Vancouver were recent immigrants, or born in Canada to parents who were recent immigrants in 2001, according to the report. Most lived in a home where a language other than English or French was spoken.
Meanwhile, under one-third of new immigrants took at least one course in either English or French within six months of arriving in Canada, the study found.
Canadian Press
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
OTTAWA -- Most of the nearly two million immigrants who arrived in Canada during the 1990s settled in one of the country's 27 census metropolitan areas, but still found it harder to find work than natural-born citizens, Statistics Canada reported Wednesday.
Almost three-quarters of Canada's immigrants settled in the three largest centres - Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver, the report stated. In 1981, just over half settled in these three cities.
Most immigrants stay in the same city they've settled in, the report stated. In addition, most Canadian-born children of immigrants reside in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver.
The report, based primarily on data from 2001, indicates that the changing origin of Canadian immigrants may account for this trend. Immigrants from East and South Asia have historically settled in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver, the report noted, and immigrants from these regions have accounted for an increasing share of all new arrivals in Canada.
Immigration can also account for "considerable shares'' of population in smaller urban areas. For instance, only 1.3 per cent of all recent immigrants settled in Windsor, Ont., yet they represented eight per cent of the total population of that city.
The report also found that recent immigrants were much more likely to work for low wages, were less likely to earn higher wages, and more likely to be unemployed.
For example, recent immigrants in Edmonton had an employment rate of 76.1 per cent, compared with 84 per cent for those born in Canada. Their unemployment rate was 5.9 per cent, compared to 4.1 per cent for Canadian-born workers.
Immigrants also tended to be better educated than native-born Canadians, but in almost every urban region, a higher proportion of recent immigrants were employed in jobs with lower skill requirements than Canada-born employees.
"In fact, recent immigrants with a university degree were much more likely than their Canadian-born counterparts to be working in occupations that typically require no formal education,'' the study said.
In Vancouver, 31 per cent of recent immigrants with a university degree were employed in low-skill jobs, compared to only 13 per cent of Canadian-born graduates, for example.
In all metropolitan areas examined in the report, recent immigrants between the ages of 25 and 54 were more likely than Canadian-born citizens to attend school.
About one-quarter of all children up to the age of 17 in Toronto and Vancouver were recent immigrants, or born in Canada to parents who were recent immigrants in 2001, according to the report. Most lived in a home where a language other than English or French was spoken.
Meanwhile, under one-third of new immigrants took at least one course in either English or French within six months of arriving in Canada, the study found.
