Canada-born people show greater employment rate in comparison with immigrants.

Statistics Canada reported on Friday that employment for the Asian immigrants who completed their university education from Asia is less than university graduates of Canada.

These Asians reportedly lag behind the Canadians in terms employment by 25.2 percentage points.

The above report is based on the fact that although 90.7 percent of the university graduates of Canada were employed, only 65.5 percent of the Asian immigrants were employed. The report revealed that the immigrants who seeked their university education from anywhere except Canada were less likely to be employed in comparison to the Canadians. The results were derived between the years 2002 to 2007 and included the immigrants aged between 25-54 years. But it is to be noted that the immigrants who received their education from US and Europe had greater chances for acquiring a job than any other immigrant.

The chances of immigrants to get a job in Canada increases with the time they spent in Canada but the same was not applicable for immigrants from Asia. The survey examined cases of 108,000 immigrants who got their university education in Asia and entered Canada in search of a job before the year 1997. And the study found that the employment rate for these people was 7.1 percent less than the Canadians.

The result also pointed out that gender also plays an important role in acquiring a job in Canada. It stated that between the years 2002 and 2007, almost half of the immigrants entering into Canada were women but still women constituted a significantly lower proportion of the labor force. This result was more prominent in case of Asian women.

The study said that these results were because of the fact that these women lack proper knowledge of either English or French and are unable to match the international standards as well.

These issues tend to increase the income gap between the Canadian-born and the immigrants. But, it is very relevant from previous studies that the income gap between the immigrants living in Canada since decades is at touching distance to their Canadian counterparts.

At the end of the study, it pointed out that although, in most cases, the income gap was very little between the Canada-born people and the immigrants who had settled in Canada before the year 1997, there was an exception. And the exception was in Ontario, where, in a survey, more than 61000 immigrants who got their education in Asia were examined. Although all these Asians arrived in Canada more than a decade ago, still their employment rate was far lower than the Canada-born people.