Studies of immigrant well-being primarily focus on economic outcomes. However, immigrants often cite a desire to improve their general quality of life as their main motivation for migrating. This study compares life satisfaction among recent immigrants in Canada with life satisfaction in their...

Les immigrants au Canada proviennent d'un vaste eventail de pays, ou les roles des hommes et des femmes varient considerablement. Il est par consequent utile d'examiner les roles des hommes et des femmes pour determiner si les normes culturelles continuent d'influencer l'activite sur le marche...

Fondee sur des donnees de recensement, cette etude du faible revenu chez les immigrants vise a determiner 1) si le taux de faible revenu a augmente chez les cohortes successives de nouveaux immigrants, en valeur absolue, et relativement a celui observe chez les Canadiens de naissance, 2) le cas...

This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income rates increased among successive cohorts of entering immigrants, both in absolute terms and relative to the Canadian born (they have), (2) is this increase due to changes in...

This study examines the relationship between individuals' health status and the socio-economic composition of the neighbourhoods in which they live. It combines individual microdata from Statistics Canada's 1996-97 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) with neighbourhood-level characteristics...

Participation in ethnic economies has been regarded as an alternative avenue of economic adaptation for immigrants and minorities in major immigrant-receiving countries. This study examines one important dimension of ethnic economies: co-ethnic concentration at the workplace. Using a large...

Using Census data from 1981, 1986, 1991 and 1996, this study examined the association between living in a visible minority enclave and immigrants' labour market outcomes in Canada's three largest cities. The results showed that the number of such enclaves, defined as census tracts with at least...

Using a generational cohort method and the 1981 and 2006 Canadian Census 20 per cent sample files, this study examines whether the effects of three important determinants of self-employment – expected earnings differentials between paid and self-employment, difficulties in the labour...

Canada and the United States have recently experienced an increase in the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs), as well as...

Tant au Canada qu?aux Etats-Unis, on a constate recemment un accroissement de la dispersion regionale des nouveaux immigrants. Selon des etudes menees aux Etats-Unis, une combinaison de facteurs economiques ayant un effet d?eloignement (des Etats tels que la Californie) et de facteurs ayant un...