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- Title
Immigrant access to work in Montreal and Toronto.
- Authors
Grenier, Gilles; Nadeau, Serge
- Abstract
A main reason why the employment rate gap between immigrants and Canadian born individuals is larger in Montréal than in Toronto is language: relative to Canadian born individuals, immigrants in Montréal are significantly less likely to know French than their Toronto counterparts to know English and their knowledge of French is less rewarded than their Toronto counterparts' knowledge of English. Another possible reason is labour market discrimination. However, this discrimination would be French language re-lated as opposed to being ethnicity/place of birth related. As a matter of fact, holding other factors constant, the performance of immigrants according to their countries of origin in Montréal is remarkably comparable to that in Toronto. Results are generally similar for both maie and female immigrants.
- Subjects
TORONTO (Ont.); ONTARIO; EMPLOYMENT; IMMIGRANTS; FRENCH language; ETHNICITY
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Regional Science / Revue Canadienne des Sciences Régionales, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 1, p19
- ISSN
0705-4580
- Publication type
Article