A higher proportion of the newcomers with a core age were employed prior to the outbreak According to the Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey.
The Canadian employment rate increased by 55,000 in December and unemployment was barely change.
The Statistics Canada Labour Force Survey recorded economic indicators in the week from the 5th to 11th of December. The reference week occurred just ahead of the Omicron variant was widely spread across Canada and caused a spike in cases. The public health policies were similar to those in November in that week. The closures related to Coronavirus took place shortly afterwards.
There were more full-time workers in December right before the public health system was pushed to its limits. Most of the job growth was concentrated in Ontario. Nationally, the gains were caused by the education and construction industries.
The rate of unemployment fell slightly to 5.9 percent compared to November, when it stood at 6.6%. The month of February, prior to the epidemic, Canada’s unemployment was 5.6 5.9%.
Newcomer employment is higher than that of the pre-pandemic
Travel restrictions for international travelers prior to the outbreak caused the numbers of recently arrived immigrants (who have arrived within the last five years) has returned to levels pre-pandemic in the last few months. The number of very recent immigrants in December was total count of recent immigrants of the core active years (25 up to 55) was 0.6 percent higher by 5,000, than two years prior.
The proportion of core-age recent immigrants grew to 7.8 per cent to 78.7 percent in the two years that ended in December 2021. In that time, the gains in employment were greatest in scientific, professional, and technological and other services (up by 26,000, 31.3 percent) as also in retail and wholesale trade (up by 20,000, 28.7%).
Statistics Canada says the large growth in both industries are due to the roles that both lower- and higher-skilled work contributes to getting new entrants to the market. Professional technical, scientific, and other services are typically “high-skilled” jobs , according in the National Occupational Classification (NOC) while retail trade jobs like cashiers are classified as “low skilled”. The main immigration route in Canada, Express Entry, focuses on the admission of skilled workers. There are also pathways for those with lower skills, like Provincial Nominee Programs like however, there are a lot of economically-minded immigrants who are coming to Canada as highly skilled workers.
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In the case of immigrants who came to Canada over 5 years ago job levels among the core-aged age group were at least 83 percent in December. However the core-aged workers of Canada had an average of around 86 percent. The numbers are similar from the previous two years.
The rate of employment increases year on year for minorities who are visible to the public.
Comparatively to 2020, the percentage of employment for minorities with visible identities was up 4 percentage points to nearly 71% by the end of 2021. The rate of employment for white Canadians was up by two percentage points to nearly 71 percent. Although the employment rates for both groups were similar the visible minority groups experienced higher increase in the number of jobs.
Rates of employment have were up for several of the biggest visible minorities in Canada such as Southeast Asian, Black, and Filipino Canadians. The rate of increase was not much different between the years in the case of Chinese Canadians.
