Immigration, Business Ownership and Employment in Canada

Huju Liu, Garnett Picot, David Green and Yuri Ostrovsky

Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada, Analytical Studies Branch

Abstract:

This paper provides, for the first time, an overview of immigrant business ownership and the associated job creation in Canada. This research is possible because a new dataset has been created in which the immigration status of business owners can be determined. The analysis focuses on two types of businesses: private incorporated businesses and the unincorporated self-employed. Results are presented for immigrants who have entered Canada since 1980 and who were in the country in 2010, hereafter simply referred to as immigrants in Canada. In addition, two entering cohorts of immigrants are tracked to determine the business ownership trajectory during the first 5 to 10 years in Canada.

Keywords: Business ownership; Business performance and ownership; Ethnic diversity and immigration; Labour; Labour market and income; Workplace organization; innovation; performance (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-03-21
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