This chapter analyzes the quality of jobs, wages and reports of poverty for individuals who are ‘equality seeking groups’. According to the federal Employment Equity Act, there are four major groups that are more likely to experience discrimination in employment, these groups are: women, visible minorities, Aboriginal people and persons with disabilities. Although the range of such individual is very different, each group experience poor work conditions compare to the average Canadian citizens. One of the key factors that is affecting the Canadian labour market is discrimination which is resulting in inequality and poverty.
Immigrants have changed the Canadian labour market drastically over the last 25 years. Information collected from the …show more content…
Factors like systematic discrimination can explain the increasing wage and opportunity gaps. The role of racial discrimination in the labour force is often overlook in economic studies, which discusses that pay and employment gaps based on race do not reflect discrimination, but rather hidden differences in job qualifications, inferior quality of education in developed countries and differences in language skills in immigrants and the Canadian born. Several empirical studies indicate that 36% of workers reported racial discrimination and that figure increasing 50% with coloured individuals. Studies also show that second generation Canadians have higher averages in high school and university compare to native born Canadians. While second generation immigrants do better in education the same is not reflected in economic outcomes. The 2005 Census indicates that the unemployment rate for visible minorities’ non-immigrants is much higher than non-whites immigrants (9.8% vs. …show more content…
Aboriginal people will make up a large proportion of youth entering the workforce over the next 20 years, mostly in Western Canada. Aboriginal people are very diverse, and many in rural and remote areas and in the reserves. The economic situation is extremely low and many individuals do not have paid work. The average income per adult on reserves was $15,000 in 2001 and the data on non-reserves are not reliable because individuals refuse to participate in the Census. The social condition on several reverse is very poor, and it is reflected on the life expectancy of Aboriginal people. One barrier Aboriginal people face when it comes to the labour force is the extent of travel. Many live at a distance with good job opportunities and many Aboriginal people have less than a high school education. According to the 2001 Census about (48%) of Aboriginal people had less than a high school education, compared to less than one-third of all Canadians. Similarly about 4% had a post-secondary education compares to 15% of Canadians. Overall Aboriginal people do not do well in the labour market because they have great difficulty finding permanent, reasonably well-paid
Immigrants have changed the Canadian labour market drastically over the last 25 years. Information collected from the …show more content…
Factors like systematic discrimination can explain the increasing wage and opportunity gaps. The role of racial discrimination in the labour force is often overlook in economic studies, which discusses that pay and employment gaps based on race do not reflect discrimination, but rather hidden differences in job qualifications, inferior quality of education in developed countries and differences in language skills in immigrants and the Canadian born. Several empirical studies indicate that 36% of workers reported racial discrimination and that figure increasing 50% with coloured individuals. Studies also show that second generation Canadians have higher averages in high school and university compare to native born Canadians. While second generation immigrants do better in education the same is not reflected in economic outcomes. The 2005 Census indicates that the unemployment rate for visible minorities’ non-immigrants is much higher than non-whites immigrants (9.8% vs. …show more content…
Aboriginal people will make up a large proportion of youth entering the workforce over the next 20 years, mostly in Western Canada. Aboriginal people are very diverse, and many in rural and remote areas and in the reserves. The economic situation is extremely low and many individuals do not have paid work. The average income per adult on reserves was $15,000 in 2001 and the data on non-reserves are not reliable because individuals refuse to participate in the Census. The social condition on several reverse is very poor, and it is reflected on the life expectancy of Aboriginal people. One barrier Aboriginal people face when it comes to the labour force is the extent of travel. Many live at a distance with good job opportunities and many Aboriginal people have less than a high school education. According to the 2001 Census about (48%) of Aboriginal people had less than a high school education, compared to less than one-third of all Canadians. Similarly about 4% had a post-secondary education compares to 15% of Canadians. Overall Aboriginal people do not do well in the labour market because they have great difficulty finding permanent, reasonably well-paid