Immigration.ca - Canada Immigration News - September 2007
According to the latest data from Statistics Canada, immigrants are having a difficult time integrating themselves into the Canadian job market. The unemployment rate for new arrivals to Canada (within the past five years) is 11.5 percent, which is more than double the average of Canadian-born workers at 4.9 per cent. As their time in Canada increases, so does their level of integration, with unemployment rates matching up after ten years of landed status.
The data showed that, despite the high levels of unemployment, immigrants are more likely to hold university degrees. Female immigrants have more difficulty integrating than their male counterparts and most immigrants end up employed in service sectors as well as manufacturing, professional, scientific and technical sectors.
Immigration is projected to become the nation's main source of labour within the next five years.
Source: CTV News
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20070910/
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