Episodes of non-employment among immigrants from developing countries in Canada

Authors

  • Said Ahmed Aboubacar
  • Nong Zhu

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.25336/P6GW3F

Keywords:

Immigrants, integration, assimilation, labour market, SLID

Abstract

Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID), we analyze non-employment episodes for immigrants from developing countries, and compare their situation to that of immigrants from developed countries and Canadian-born individuals between 1996 and 2006. The methods used allowed us to draw the following conclusion: significant differences exist between these three groups in labour market mobility, the average duration of a non-employment episode, and the factors that affect the propensity to exit from a nonemployment episode. These differences demonstrate a particular disadvantage for immigrants from developing countries. In fact, they tend to spend more time in non-employment episodes compared to their counterparts from developed countries, and compared to Canadian-born individuals.

Author Biography

Said Ahmed Aboubacar

Department of Sociology

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Published

2013-05-24