By Ray Clancy, Expat Forum | Link to Article
Highly educated immigrants to Canada are facing more difficulties in accessing professional and management occupations than in the middle of the 1990s, according to researchers.
By Ray Clancy, Expat Forum | Link to Article
Highly educated immigrants to Canada are facing more difficulties in accessing professional and management occupations than in the middle of the 1990s, according to researchers.
A team from the University of Toronto analysed trends in the success of immigrants with university degrees in census data from 1996, 2001, and 2006 and have identified a ‘brain waste’ trend.
They discovered that although recent immigrants are much more likely to have university degrees than earlier immigrants, lower proportions are obtaining high skilled jobs.
In 1996, some 50.4% of recently immigrated men with higher education succeeded in obtaining a high skilled occupation, as compared to 70.7% of educated, native born men. But in 2006 only 43.5% of educated immigrant men had these occupations, while the percentage for native born men remained the same.
Educated immigrant women fared even worse, with their success rate in obtaining high skilled jobs decreasing from 34.6% in 1996 to 34.4% in 2006. The success rate for native born women with similar education levels increased from 64.5% in 1996 to 66.9% in 2006.
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