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The growing diaspora in migration has prompted Western countries in recent years to examine the factors contributing to the economic integration of newcomers. If their integration is unsuccessful, it could create economic inequalities and be burdensome to the host society. The inequalities experienced by working immigrants have often been examined through cross-sectional data describing the situation at a specific moment in time, with limited consideration of the complexity of the immigrant's settlement experience. This paper examines the economic integration of new immigrants through prospective analysis and considers multiple factors concurrently in an effort to address some of this complexity. The current study focuses on employment disparities across source regions. The analyses are taken from a ten-year longitudinal survey describing the socio-economic experience of 429 new immigrants settled in the Montreal metropolitan area. Over time, wage and occupational mobility increase, although it appears stagnant for different groups of respondents from specific regions such as East Asia, North Africa and the Middle East. Also, like respondents from sub-Saharan Africa, these respondents face difficulties sustaining a position in the labour market.

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The Quebec labour market of the last two decades has undergone profound changes due to progress in information technology and market globalization. This new context has generated new forms of work which have been termed"non-standard work". Since the early eighties, the number of such positions has been growing significantly. Often associated with precarious employment activity, the phenomenon of non-standard work has raised a fundamental question: are these positions stable? This is the main question that we wish to investigate from the perspective of new immigrants: do new immigrants achieve stability in the labour market upon arrival in Quebec? In a society that has, quite often for demographic and economic reasons, welcomed an average of 35,000 newcomers every year since the early 90s, the success (or failure) of economic integration rests in part on immigrants' capacity to participate in the labour market and remain employed. Our analysis is based on a longitudinal survey that describes the biographical trajectories of the Settlement of New Immigrants (SNI). This survey describes the main attempts of 1,000 immigrants' to establish themselves over a period of 10 years in the greater Montreal area. This research mainly shows that continuous sequences of employment are growing overtime, thus ensuring new immigrants greater stability in the labour market. On the other hand, results suggest that racial discrimination modulates labour market participation, in particular for natives of North Africa and the Middle East.Dans les vingt derni~res anndes, le march~ du travail qu#bdcois a connu de profonds changements avec l'dvolution des technologies de I'information et la globalisation des marchds. Cette nouvelle conjoncture a engendr~ de nouvelles formes de travail que l' on a surnomm~ , emplois non standard ~,. Depuis le ddbut des ann~es quatrevingt, les emplois de cette nature ont connu une forte croissance. Souvent associ~ la prdcaritd d'emploi, ce ph~nomkne de l" emploi non standard a soulevf une question fondamentale: ces emplois sont-ils stables ? La question principale que nous ddsirons approfondir selon la perspective des nouveaux immigrants est la suivante: est-ce Key words/Mots-clefs: New Immigrants/Nouveaux arrivants; Stability in the Labour Market/ Stabilit6 au sein du rnarch6 du travail; Random effects/Effets al6atoires. 9 2005 by PCERII. All rights reserved./Tous droits r6serv6s. ISSN: 1488-3473 lIMl/RlMlVolume 6 Number/num6ro 3/4 (Summer/6t6 Fall/automne 2005): 469-492 GODIN AND RENAUD que les nouveaux immigrants parviennent h u~ze stabilitd sur le marchd du travail h leur arrivde au Qudbec? Pour une socidt~ qui accueilIe en moyenne 35 000 nouveaux arrivants par annde depuis Ie ddbut des ann~es 90, bien souvent pour des raisons ddmographiques mais aussi ~conomiques, le succ~s (ou l'insucc~s) de I'int~gration dconomique repose en partie sur la capacitd de ces derniers h prendre non seulement part au march~ du travail, mais aussi h se maintenir en emploi. Pour nos analyses, nous aurons recours h une enqui...