Download or read book A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty Among Recent Immigrants in Canada written by Dominique Fleury and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada iii iv A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada 1. Introduction The economic and social integration of immigrants is an important objective of Canadian government. [...] In this study, data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) are used to get a better sense of the characteristics of the population of immigrants who landed in Canada since the early nineties (also called in this study the "recent immigrants") and who are living in poverty. [...] A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada 7 8 A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada 4. Profile of recent immigrants of working age 4.1 Socio-demographic characteristics Recent immigrants of working age had certain characteristics that made their prospects for labour market integration in 2004 favourable. [...] Table 2 also shows that in 2004 the characteristics of immigrants who arrived in Canada since the early nineties were different from those of earlier immigrants, which tended to be more like those of native-born Canadians, at least in terms of education level, number of years of experience in the labour market, and the prevalence of work limitations among them. [...] A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada 13 14 A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty among Recent Immigrants to Canada 5. Incidence of low income and working poverty among recent immigrants In 2004, more than one in five recent immigrants of working-age were living in poverty, compared to fewer than one in ten other Canadians (11.2% among earlier immigrants and 9.3.
Download or read book A Study of Poverty and Working Poverty Among Recent Immigrants in Canada written by Dominique Fleury and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Study of Poverty and Working Poverty Among Recent Immigrants to Canada Final Report July 2007 written by Canada. Dept. of Human Resources and Social Development and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book An Economic Sociology of Immigrant Life in Canada written by Abdolmohammad Kazemipur and published by Nova Publishers. This book was released on 2004 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Not long ago, the integration of immigrants in host societies was perceived mostly in terms of assimilation, an overly simplistic scenario, based on which immigrants would learn the language and culture of the native population, and the rest would just follow. However, the developments of the past two decades have shown just how complex this process can be. This new book shows the diverse experiences of various groups of immigrants. This book takes a fresh look at the experiences of immigrants to Canada. The contents of the book are based on over five years of research the author has carried out in Canada and elsewhere, using a variety of data sources, from quantitative census data through specially-designed survey information, to materials derived from qualitative research. The book is structured in such a way that it can be beneficial to a wide range of readers: those interested in in-depth examination of immigration issues, those leaning more towards narrative texts, and those looking only for general research trends and theoretical and policy implications. Literature; The Calm Before the Storm: Preparing to Migrate to Canada; Haves and Have-nots: Poverty Experiences of Immigrants; The New Kid in Town: Neighbourhood Poverty and Economic Performance; What You Know, and Who You Know: Human Capital, Social Capital, and Immigrant Life; Wrap-up and Implications; References; Index.
Download or read book The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Immigrants and Possible Causes written by W. G. Picot and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As a result of both rising low- income rates among immigrants, and their increasing share of the population, in Canada's major cities virtually all of the increase in the city low-income rates during the 1990s was concentrated among the immigrant population. [...] The change in the characteristics of immigrants (e.g., from different source regions, rising levels of educational attainment, etc.) appears to have accounted for about one-third of the increase in the earnings gap at entry (i.e., the gap between immigrants and comparable Canadian- born). [...] The earnings of the immigrants in each cohort are computed (as a proportion of the earnings of the Canadian-born) for the cohort after one to five years in Canada, six to ten years in Canada, and so on. [...] Among men, the cohort of the late 1970s earned 90% of that of the Canadian-born at entry3 and among the early 1990s cohort, this number had fallen to 67%. [...] This is typically done within a regression format that computes the log of the ratio of the earnings of immigrants to those of the Canadian-born.
Download or read book Poverty in Canada written by Dennis Raphael and published by Canadian Scholars. This book was released on 2020-08-28 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in its third edition, this comprehensive text provides an in-depth examination of poverty and its impact on the health and quality of life of Canadians. Considering a broad range of topics, Dennis Raphael covers the central issues of defining and measuring poverty; situational and societal causes of poverty; health and social implications for individuals, communities, and society as a whole; and the means of reducing poverty’s incidence through public policy action. Poverty in Canada will foster greater insight into the repercussions of poverty throughout society, encouraging readers to reflect on provocative questions at the end of each chapter. Well updated to reflect current statistics and recent public policy changes, this new edition explores why specific groups of Canadians are over-represented amongst those living in poverty and provides a more developed analysis of the barriers to reducing poverty, including economic globalization and the increased power and influence of the corporate sector under neo liberalism. Emphasizing the lived experiences of poverty, this interdisciplinary volume is a valuable resource to those studying or working in health studies, social work, sociology, and equity studies.
Download or read book The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Immigrants and Possible Causes written by W. G. Picot and published by Statistics Canada, Business and Labour Market Analysis Division. This book was released on 2004 with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper reviews the increase in the earnings gap between immigrants and Canadian-born over the past two decades, and the current explanations of this labour market deterioration among recent immigrants in particular.
Download or read book Pathways to Successful Economic Integration written by Risa Lisa Kaida and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Poverty in Canada written by Raghubar Sharma and published by OUP Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poverty in Canada is on the rise, particularly among certain groups. While in developing countries poverty may affect much of the population, in a more developed country such as Canada it is largely restricted to specific groups. Such groups are often excluded from full participation in our social and economic institutions. There are many factors behind this lack of wealth and opportunity; addressing the phenomenon of poverty can be a complicated matter. Government demographer and lecturer Raghubar D. Sharma provides the first concise discussion of the specific groups that are affected by poverty, including the elderly, ethnic poverty, child poverty, and the "working poor." Chapters focus on these groups and explore the circumstances behind their exclusion. Sharma also looks into a larger trend behind the rise of poverty: a massive economic transformation akin to the Industrial Revolution of the early 1700s has been underway since the 1980s. This phenomenon of "globalization" is elim
Download or read book Chronic Low Income and Low income Dynamics Among Recent Immigrants written by W. G. Picot and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The deteriorating economic outcomes among immigrants entering during the 1980s and 1990s have prompted much public concern and policy debate.
Download or read book Immigration Poverty and Socioeconomic Inequality written by David Card and published by Russell Sage Foundation. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapid rise in the proportion of foreign-born residents in the United States since the mid-1960s is one of the most important demographic events of the past fifty years. The increase in immigration, especially among the less-skilled and less-educated, has prompted fears that the newcomers may have depressed the wages and employment of the native-born, burdened state and local budgets, and slowed the U.S. economy as a whole. Would the poverty rate be lower in the absence of immigration? How does the undocumented status of an increasing segment of the foreign-born population impact wages in the United States? In Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality, noted labor economists David Card and Steven Raphael and an interdisciplinary team of scholars provide a comprehensive assessment of the costs and benefits of the latest era of immigration to the United States Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality rigorously explores shifts in population trends, labor market competition, and socioeconomic segregation to investigate how the recent rise in immigration affects economic disadvantage in the United States. Giovanni Peri analyzes the changing skill composition of immigrants to the United States over the past two decades to assess their impact on the labor market outcomes of native-born workers. Despite concerns over labor market competition, he shows that the overall effect has been benign for most native groups. Moreover, immigration appears to have had negligible impacts on native poverty rates. Ethan Lewis examines whether differences in English proficiency explain this lack of competition between immigrant and native-born workers. He finds that parallel Spanish-speaking labor markets emerge in areas where Spanish speakers are sufficiently numerous, thereby limiting the impact of immigration on the wages of native-born residents. While the increase in the number of immigrants may not necessarily hurt the job prospects of native-born workers, low-skilled migration appears to suppress the wages of immigrants themselves. Michael Stoll shows that linguistic isolation and residential crowding in specific metropolitan areas has contributed to high poverty rates among immigrants. Have these economic disadvantages among low-skilled immigrants increased their dependence on the U.S. social safety net? Marianne Bitler and Hilary Hoynes analyze the consequences of welfare reform, which limited eligibility for major cash assistance programs. Their analysis documents sizable declines in program participation for foreign-born families since the 1990s and suggests that the safety net has become less effective in lowering child poverty among immigrant households. As the debate over immigration reform reemerges on the national agenda, Immigration, Poverty, and Socioeconomic Inequality provides a timely and authoritative review of the immigrant experience in the United States. With its wealth of data and intriguing hypotheses, the volume is an essential addition to the field of immigration studies. A Volume in the National Poverty Center Series on Poverty and Public Policy
Download or read book Unfulfilled Expectations Missed Opportunities Poverty Among Immigrants and Refugees in British Columbia written by Spigelman, Martin and published by British Columbia. Policy, Planning and Research Division. This book was released on 1998 with total page 105 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Asset Poverty Among Immigrants to Canada written by Nahid Sultana and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Relatively recently, social work scholars, poverty researchers, and policymakers have gained interest in the asset-based approach as an anti-poverty strategy and have explored how assets can provide support in times of economic hardship for individual persons, family units and communities. Real and financial assets could be very important when making assessments of who is poor and financially vulnerable. Although several studies have examined the levels, trends, composition and the overall rate of asset poverty in different countries, asset poverty among immigrant groups has not had sufficient attention in the literature (Rothwell & Robson, 2018). Economic security is one of the most motivating factors of international migration, and assets are considered a vital component of the economic integration of immigrants into the host society. However, some immigrants struggle to accumulate assets, and, therefore, the asset poverty situation could be different for certain immigrant groups. Since a large percentage (21.9%) of Canada’s population are immigrants (Statistics Canada, 2017a), it is important to broaden our understanding of the asset situation of immigrants. However, when considering immigrants to be a homogeneous group, as was the case in previous research, it is difficult to understand which groups of immigrants are more vulnerable to asset poverty. As immigrants are an important part of Canadian society, it is helpful to understand the asset disadvantages faced by certain immigrant groups to address their particular needs. Therefore, this current dissertation is focused on examining the differing levels of assets held by immigrants at the subgroup level. By using Statistics Canada’s cross-sectional Survey of Financial Security 1999 and 2012 and the Longitudinal Study of Immigrants in Canada 2007, in this dissertation, I have examined the prevalence of asset poverty – insufficiency of assets to survive at the low-income cut-off for three months – among immigrant groups and the asset holding patterns of immigrants with a particular focus on homeownership.Findings suggest that asset poverty rates are higher for immigrant households than their income poverty rates and that asset poverty is most prevalent when defining assets as financial resources. Findings also suggest that some visible minority immigrants experience higher asset poverty rates than others, and the risk for asset poverty is greater for immigrants than Canadian-born households. While not all immigrants are vulnerable to asset poverty, findings suggest that certain groups such as young adults, single person families, those who speak a language other than English or French at home, households with children, and large families are most at risk of being asset poor over time. Although asset holdings such as homeownership reduced the likelihood of being in asset poverty, findings showed that many immigrants – especially those who were born in Africa and in the Middle East, are in their prime working-age, unemployed, single, and earn low income–face more challenges to homeownership over time in Canada. Social workers who closely work with individuals and families and who are involved with social policy development require careful assessment and knowledge about the nature of ongoing financial struggles and economic discrimination of certain immigrant groups to build assets in Canada. Since this dissertation found that not all immigrant groups are equally successful in overcoming economic insecurity, programs that help families accumulate assets may play an important role in fighting poverty and reducing economic vulnerability. Because a large number of immigrants are experiencing asset poverty, social policies need to consider relevant factors such as age, gender, family status, immigration status, race and ethnicity, and language ability while developing programs to help those who are most in need of support"--
Download or read book Differences That Matter written by Dan Zuberi and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-07-05 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book shines a spotlight on the causes and consequences of working poverty, revealing how the lives of low-wage workers are affected by differences in health care, labor, and social welfare policy in the United States and Canada. Dan Zuberi's conclusions are based on survey data, eighteen months of participant observation fieldwork, and in-depth interviews with seventy-seven hotel employees working in parallel jobs on both sides of the border. Two hotel chains, each with one union and one non-union hotel in Seattle and Vancouver, provide a vivid crossnational comparison because they are similar in so many regards, the one major exception being government policy.Zuberi demonstrates how labor, health, social welfare, and public investment policy affect these hotel workers and their families. His book challenges the myth that globalization necessarily means hospitality jobs must be insecure and pay poverty wages and makes clear the critical role played by government policy in the reduction of poverty and creation of economic equality. Zuberi shows exactly where and how the social policies that distinguish the Canadian welfare state from the U.S. version make a difference in protecting Canadian workers from the hardships that burden low-wage workers in the United States. Differences That Matter, which is filled with first-person accounts, ends with policy recommendations and a call for grassroots community organizing.
Download or read book The Deteriorating Economic Welfare of Immigrants and Possible Causes written by W. G. Picot and published by Analytical Studies, Statistics Canada. This book was released on 2005 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Growing Up Canadian electronic Resource a Study of New Immigrant Children written by Beiser, Morton and published by [Hull, Quebec] : Human Resources Development Canada, Applied Research Branch. This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Canadian Fact Book on Poverty written by David P. Ross and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The " Fact Book on Poverty " clearly indicates certain groups in our society are especially vulnerable to poverty. They include the old, the long-term unemployed, and female heads of households.
