Economic downturn hit educated immigrants harder

Original author: CTV.ca News Staff
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I am sure this information will be useful to those who are going to immigrate to Canada as a skilled worker (skilled worker) in IT specialties, for which a diploma confirmation is not required. So wind up and learn languages ​​(not only C ++ and C #!).

An economic downturn hit educated immigrants more painfully The recession hit more

recently arrived immigrants - especially those with a higher education - much more painful than natives of Canada, a new report says .

University immigrants are four times more likely to be unemployed than their Canadian counterparts: 13.9% and 3.4%, respectively, according to a report from Community Foundations of Canada .

In comparison, the average unemployment rate was 15% for recent immigrants versus 7.8% for Canadian workers.

Several factors affecting this disparity in employment are noted, including a lack of Canadian experience with immigrants, a language barrier, and a lack of recognition of diplomas received outside of Canada.

The Council of Canada notes that if all the diplomas of immigrants were recognized in Canada, this would bring the Canadian economy up to $ 5 billion a year.

A recent Canadian Statistics report found that immigrants who have studied abroad are far less likely to be employed by profession than Canadians: 24% versus 62%.

The greatest gap is observed in Alberta and Quebec. In Alberta, only 2.9% of Canadians with university degrees are unemployed, while this figure is 11.5% for new arrivals with the same level of education.

In Quebec, nearly 20% of university-educated immigrants are unemployed.

In Toronto, where 45% of all Canadian immigrants live, the unemployment rate for those with university degrees is 14%. For natives of Canada, the same figure is 3.3%.

The report also reports that half of Canadians in 2009 have some kind of post-secondary education. This is 2% higher than in 2006 and 18.1% than in 1990.

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