Book Description

The datasets used by the project include a range of large-scale surveys such as the Census, the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada, the Ethnic Diversity Survey, the Workplace and Employee Survey, the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, the Labour Force Survey and the Permanent Residents Data System. [...] The second column shows the employment status of those who (1) worked full-time at 6 months but then transitioned to full-time or part-time work by 2 years of residence and (2) those who worked part-time at 6 months and transitioned to full-time or part-time work at 2 years of residence. [...] By wave three, the percentage of immigrants in part-time work has declined from 16.9% to 9.2% of all continuously employed immigrants and the percentage of immigrants in full-time work has increased from 83.1% to 90.7% of all continuously employed immigrants. [...] Full-Time $17.40 Part-Time $13.17 Part-Time $15.13 Table 4 shows the average hourly wage of the respondents by full-time and part-time employment status during the first four years of settlement in Canada. [...] Immigrants who started in full-time work paid a penalty for working part-time later as their average hourly wages fell from $17.34 to $13.55 with part-time work in wave 2. Even if those who worked full-time in the 1st wave and part-time in the 2nd wave became full-time workers by the 3rd wave, their average hourly wage was only $16.93, lower than the average hourly wage of those ($20.13).