Labor Market Transitions of Immigrant‐Born, Refugee‐Born, and Canadian‐Born Youth

Abstract

Cet article a pour but d'analyser les expériences du marché du travail des jeunes nés de parents immigrants, réfugiés et canadiens en utilisant deux ensembles de données de 1998, l'Enquête sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu, et L'enquête sur le rétablissement des réfugiés en Alberta. Son ambition première est de comprendre leurs expériences de travail, étant donné qu'elles sont essentielles à leur intégration et à leur passage à l'âge adulte. D'un point de vue pratique, les résultats aident les fournisseurs de services de première ligne en procurant de l'information supplémentaire sur les besoins liés à l'emploi des jeunes nouveaux arrivants. Théoriquement, cette étude a pour objectif de mieux comprendre un des aspects de l'intégration — l'emploi —, étant donné que l'information actuelle ne décrit pas adéquatement les expériences de ces jeunes. Dans l'ensemble, cette recherche augmente les connaissances sur l'intégration des jeunes nés de parents immigrants et réfugiés sur le marché canadien du travail. This paper examines the labor market experiences of immigrant‐born, refugee‐born, and Canadian‐born youth using two data sets, the 1998 Survey on Labour and Income Dynamics and the 1998 Refugee Resettlement to Alberta Survey. Its main objective is to understand their job experiences as they are crucial to their integration and transition to adulthood. On a practical level, the findings help front‐line service providers by providing additional information about the employment‐related needs of newcomer youth. Theoretically, this research aims to develop a better understanding of one aspect of the integration, employment, as current information does not adequately describe the experiences of newcomer youth. Taken together, this research increases knowledge about the integration of immigrant‐born and refugee‐born youth in the Canadian labor market.

Immigrant Youth and Employment: Lessons Learned from the Analysis of LSIC and 82 Lived Stories

“…Using results from the Annual Labour Force Survey and the Alberta Refugee Study, Wilkinson (2008) finds that immigrant youth between the ages of 15 and 24 years have a higher unemployment rate than their Canadian-born and refugee youth counterparts. Beaujot and Kerr's (2007) analysis reveals that immigrant, along with Aboriginal youth, are likely to have lower incomes despite their level of education and whether or not their education was obtained in Canada.…”

The labour market integration of refugee and family reunion immigrants: a comparison of outcomes in Canada and Sweden

“…He notes, however, that a gap remains, even after controlling for these factors. Wilkinson (2008) looks specifically at outcomes for immigrant youth in Canada and concludes that refugee youth face higher levels of unemployment as compared with other immigrant groups. Hiebert (2002), on the other hand, examining the situation in British Columbia, uses IMDB data to conclude that, the language training provided to refugees means that they can perform better than family reunion immigrants.…”

“…Whether refugees perform as well as other non-economic immigrants is up for debate with some arguing that they do (Devoretz et al, 2004) and others arguing that the gap is substantial (Aydemir, 2011;Wilkinson, 2008). There is also a serious lack of comparative studies that would serve to assess differences by intake category across host-countries.…”

The Integration of Forced Migrants Into the Italian Labor Market

“…Forced migrants are usually regarded as a disadvantaged group, relative not only to the citizens of the countries where they settle but also to other immigrants, leading some researchers to talk of a substantial "refugee gap" (Aydemir, 2011;Connor, 2010;Wilkinson, 2008). The most common explanation is that refugees have on average fewer socioeconomic resources, not having self-selected for migration by their own initiative, than economic Downloaded by [UNSW Library] at 12:44 11 August 2015 migrants have.…”

“…Research on this topic is more common in such non-European countries as the United States (e.g., Connor, 2010;Hume & Hardwick, 2005), Canada (e.g., Aydemir, 2011;Codell, Hill, Woltz, & Gore, 2011;Wilkinson, 2008), and Australia (e.g., ColicPeisker & Tilbury, 2006;Hugo, 2011;Waxman, 2001). In Europe most studies have been conducted in long-established-immigrant-receiving countries such as Great Britain (Bloch, 2007;Hussein, Manthorpe, & Stevens, 2011;Lyon, Sepulveda, & Syrett, 2007), Sweden (Åslund,Östh, & Zenou, 2010;Bevelander, Hagstromand, & Ronnqvist, 2009), the Netherlands (De Vroome & Van Tubergen, 2010), and Belgium (Wauters & Lambrecht, 2008).…”