Immigrants from Post-Soviet States: Socioeconomic Characteristics and Integration Outcomes in Canada

Feng Hou () and Xiaoyi Yan ()
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Feng Hou: Statistics Canada
Xiaoyi Yan: Office of the Parliamentary Budget Officer

A chapter in Migration from the Newly Independent States, 2020, pp 373-391 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter first provides an overview of the level and characteristics of post-Soviet immigration to Canada. It further examines the labor market outcomes of post-Soviet immigrants relative to other immigrants and the Canadian-born. About 179,000 post-Soviet immigrants came to Canada between 1992 and 2009, and another 55,000 came in the early 2010s. Post-Soviet immigrants were admitted primarily as economic immigrants. The majority of them arrived at prime working ages and were able to speak one of Canada’s official languages. They had a very large advantage in educational attainment over the Canadian-born and other immigrant populations. Compared with other immigrants, post-Soviet immigrants achieved a higher employment rate and a higher share working in highly skilled occupations, although their economic outcomes were not as good as the Canadian-born with the same educational level. Employed post-Soviet immigrants earned significantly less than the Canadian-born with similar sociodemographic characteristics.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-36075-7_17

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