Ottawa can easily help immigrants in job market: TD Bank. Retrieved from:
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ottawa-easily-help-immigrants-job-market-td-bank-132055492.html“Immigrants who arrived in Canada in the 1970s used to be able to catch up to the salaries of their Canadian counterparts within a generation.
But the disparity has grown steadily and now the average immigrant doesn't have much hope of seeing the gap close until the second generation.”
"The simple, but sad, truth is that many new immigrants cannot hope to close the earnings gap in their lifetime," according to the TD paper.
The paper also commented: “Closing that gap is crucial as Canada faces the mass retirement of the baby-boom generation”.
“If immigrants were employed at the same level as established Canadians, there would be about 370,000 extra people at work” According to the estimate made by the TD economist.
"Canada admits hundreds of thousands of highly educated, highly skilled immigrants each year to meet labour demand or to fill skills gaps”.
"And yet, any reason for participating in skilled immigration is rendered null and void if those immigrants ultimately take lower-paying jobs unrelated to their training because of the labour market barriers that they face."-observation by the TD paper.
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