FactSheet: Immigrant Employment Rate Gap by Province
Highlights
- At the national level, immigrants in the core working-age group of 25 to 54 years of age are 6.6% less likely to be employed than the Canadian born in this age group.
- This employment rate gap for immigrants varies widely across provinces (comparing provincial immigrants to provincial native-born residents) – from a high of 11.8 percentage points in Quebec to less than 2 percentage points in New Brunswick and in Newfoundland and Labrador.
- The gap within Montreal is 13.6 percentage points, more than double the gap at the Canadalevel.
- The employment rate gap is higher for the metro areas of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver than it is for their corresponding provincial averages.
