In Canada, the economic impact of immigration is a significant matter. Canada is welcoming more numbers of immigrant compare to other countries per year. Also, it is a fact that almost 20% of people in Canada are immigrants, or come from immigrant descent that is because Canada has one of the highest immigration rates in the world. There are four classes of immigrant, the first one is the family class which is closely related to people who are Canadian citizens living in Canada, economic immigrants who are skilled workers, others people who are accepted as immigrants for reasons that is related to humanitarian and finally refugees people who are escaping persecution, torture or cruel and unusual punishment.
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Firstly, new workers do not have enough knowledge about Canadian labor market, so they will not be able to maximize their salaries. Moreover, employers prefer to offer the same salary to the native Canadian born than the immigrants. That is because employers will be less familiar with an immigrant’s background. Immigrants would rather live in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver as opposed to other places much more than native Canadians born. Because of less accessibility they cannot have better paying occupations like those in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Although, Calgary has already passed Montreal regarding visible minorities, in Saskatchewan visible minorities are getting better wages that native-born Canadians. In the last few years, the rate of the unemployment immigrations has raised. In 1981 the native Canadian born had a low rate of unemployment, but those ones who had immigrated to Canada had a high rate. In the beginning of this century, the newcomers need ten years at least to get to the same employment rate as the native Canadian born ones. In 2006, the unemployment rate of recently arrived newcomers was 11.5%, considerably above the native Canadian average of 4.9%. For more established immigrants who had been in Canada between 5 and 10 years the rate fell to
To begin with, In relation to the …show more content…
Firstly, new workers do not have enough knowledge about Canadian labor market, so they will not be able to maximize their salaries. Moreover, employers prefer to offer the same salary to the native Canadian born than the immigrants. That is because employers will be less familiar with an immigrant’s background. Immigrants would rather live in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver as opposed to other places much more than native Canadians born. Because of less accessibility they cannot have better paying occupations like those in Alberta and Saskatchewan. Although, Calgary has already passed Montreal regarding visible minorities, in Saskatchewan visible minorities are getting better wages that native-born Canadians. In the last few years, the rate of the unemployment immigrations has raised. In 1981 the native Canadian born had a low rate of unemployment, but those ones who had immigrated to Canada had a high rate. In the beginning of this century, the newcomers need ten years at least to get to the same employment rate as the native Canadian born ones. In 2006, the unemployment rate of recently arrived newcomers was 11.5%, considerably above the native Canadian average of 4.9%. For more established immigrants who had been in Canada between 5 and 10 years the rate fell to