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ar231@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Karen Gordon) writes:

>IMMIGRANTS' JOBLESS RATE 'MUCH HIGHER'   

>(via Southam News - Eric Beauchesne - March 10, 1995 - Van. Sun):

>(Ottawa) - Immigrants are less likely than Canadian-born adults to be
>holding down jobs.  They also have a much higher unemployment rate.

>However, their success in finding work varies widely depending on where
>they're from and their level of education.

>Those are among some of the findings of a Statistics Canada profile of 
>'Canada's newest workers' appearing in the latest edition of the agency's
>'Perspectives on Labour and Income' report.

>The figures, for 1991, cover immigrants who entered the country between
>1986 and 1991.
>Immigration represents a 'major source' of new workers to Canada, the 
>profile notes.
>Recent immigrants represented 28% of the increase from 1986 to 1991 in the 
>number of people employed in Canada, a proportion that rises to almost 1/2 
>among those aged between 25 and 34 years of age.

>The employment rate for immigrants FROM NORTHERN EUROPE, at 75%, was well
>above that of Canadian-born adults at 62%, the report notes.

>Employment rates for adults from:
>Western Europe at 67%,
>from Britain, at 65%,
>and from the U.S. at 63%,
>were also higher than the rate for Canadian-born adults.

>**  
>However, on average the employment rate of working-age immigrants was only
>56%, LESS than the 62% rate of Canadian-born adults.

>And their unemployment rate, the proportion seeking work, was much higher 
>at 17.7% than that for Canadian-born adults at 10.1%.

>The employment rate of immigrants from Southern Europe and Oceania matched
>that of native-born Canadians.

>The rates for immigrants from OTHER PARTS of the world, however, were:
>60% for those from Southeast Asia,
>57% from Eastern Europe and Africa,
>56% from the Caribbean,
>54% from Southern Asia,
>53% from Central and South America, and Eastern Asia, and
>46% from Western Asia and the Middle East.

>**
>"Because recent immigrants are less likely than people born in Canada to
>be employed, they contribute less to employment growth than to population
>increase," the report says.

>Meanwhile, the majority of immigrant workers hold full time jobs though
>they were less likely to be self-employed than Canadian-born workers.

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Sorry B---- wrong number try misc.hate.immigration