Canada Global(Web News)After years of disparity, new immigrants to Canada are now seeing faster employment growth than their Canadian-born peers, Statistics Canada’s Economic and Social Report has revealed.
Since the early 2010s, immigrants in Canada have seen an upward trend in their labor market outcomes.
Recent immigrants aged 25-54 saw their employment rate increase by 10.7% between 2010 and 2023. Employment growth among Canadian-born workers during the same period was 4.1 percent.
The gap in employment rates between these groups has narrowed
Immigrants also showed a rapid recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic, where they as a group suffered significant employment setbacks, particularly in the accommodation, food services, and retail trade sectors. Employed were prominent. However, when comparing the gap in employment rates between Canadian-born workers and recent immigrants, the gap was lower than pre-2019 pandemic levels—indicating that between 2020 and 2023 the most recent Employment growth among immigrants was particularly strong.
