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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.

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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.

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"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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