Overview

Abstract (English)

KEY POINTS: * Employed immigrants who found their current job through news stories, union postings, and recruitment agencies had the highest average hourly wages. * Employed immigrants who found their current job through personal initiative, family or friends, and Canada Employment Centres had the lowest average hourly wages. * Recent immigrants had higher wages when they found their job through the internet or by personal initiative. * Immigrants are more likely to have found their current jobs through sources of information resulting in lower wages (family and friends, personal initiative), than those providing access to higher wages (union postings, news stories or recruitment agencies). * Immigrants who had found their current job through news stories, job fairs, the internet, Canada Employment Centres, or help wanted ads earned more than Canadian born. * The longer immigrants have been in Canada, the higher their average hourly wages.

Abstract (French)

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