Knowledge of Official Languages Among New Immigrants: How Important Is It
in the Labour Market?
Abstract
Immigrants to Canada must face numerous difficulties during their first years
in the country, the two most important being to find an appropriate job and
language barrier. But does a better knowledge of official languages increase
the chances for an immigrant of occupying a high-skilled job, a job in the intended
occupation, a job similar to the one they had before immigrating, a job related
to their training or field of study, or to have a higher hourly rate? In an
attempt to answer this question, the data from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants
to Canada (LSIC) were used. In the LSIC, a cohort of immigrants was interviewed
at three points in time being 6 months, 2 years and 4 years after arrival in
the country. For this study, we used the information about the job occupied
at the time of each interview, as well as the English and French self-assessed
spoken ability levels at each of these moments.
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