Otra edición más de la muy interesante encuesta de Stats Canada a los inmigrantes. Les recomiendo, en especial a los que están viniendo, que lean el informe completo.

The Daily, Monday, April 30, 2007. Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada

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About two-thirds of new immigrants reported a fairly positive congruence between their expectations and their experiences, while about one-third reported a low or declining degree of congruence between their expectations and experiences.

Considering all difficulties cited when seeking employment, lack of Canadian work experience was mentioned most often (50%), followed by lack of contacts in the job market (37%), lack of recognition of foreign experience (37%), lack of recognition of foreign qualifications (35%) and language barriers (32%).

New immigrants often experienced multiple problems when looking for work. For example, almost two-third of job seekers who reported a language problem also reported that lack of work experience was a difficulty.

Four years after their arrival in Canada, new immigrants were asked what had been the greatest difficulties they had encountered. Two difficulties came out more than any other: 46% said it was finding an adequate job while 26% said it was learning English or French.

More specifically, immigrant’s whose self-reported level of spoken English was good or very good were more likely to have a high-skill job, a job in the intended field, a job similar to the one held before immigrating and a job related to training or education. They also had higher wages, compared to immigrants whose spoken English level was not as good. This was true six months, two years and four years after immigrants’ arrival in Canada.

However, the relationship between the self-reported ability to speak French and the chances of having an “appropriate” job was not as strong, nor as persistent.

In Quebec, the level of French spoken by immigrants was not found to be related to their chances of having an “appropriate” job

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