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Foreign-Born Labour in Canada: Past Patterns, Emerging Trends, and Implications

Fecha

1991

Autores

Anthony H. Richmond

Resumen

Segmented structural change resulting in stratified labor markets characterize Canada's absorption of immigrants. Canada's labor market comprises nearly 20% foreign workers. Admission into the country is based on a points system, weighted for language knowledge, specialized training, education, experience, & regional demands for work. The structural change model of immigrant absorption describes a link between changes in the industrial distribution of the labor force & immigrant source in the industrial distribution of the labor force & immigrant source countries. Immigrants from traditional source regions (UK, US, Europe) have higher income levels than those from Third World countries. Among the features of Canada's immigrant law are temporary employment authorizations (not like Germany's guest-worker program), promotion of business immigration, & humanitarian admission of refugees (plagued by a backlog of applications). Guided by general public support of multiculturalism, immigration policy effects are unevenly distributed by region, gender, ethnicity, & immigration period. 2 Tables, 2 Figures. J. Sadler

Journal title

Regional Development Dialogue

Volumen

12

Conexiones

Los sectores económicos

General relevance - all sectors

Los grupos destinatarios

Los investigadores

Relevancia geográfica

National relevance

Esferas de la actividad

Socioligie y Demography

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