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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808982303321

Autore

Pendakur Ravi

Titolo

Immigrants and the labour force : policy, regulation, and impact / / Ravi Pendakur

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal, : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2000

ISBN

1-282-85868-8

9786612858680

0-7735-6849-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (262 p.)

Disciplina

331.6/2/0971

Soggetti

Foreign workers - Canada

Immigrants - Canada - Economic conditions

Canada Emigration and immigration Government policy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front Matter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Preface -- Introduction -- Immigration, Policy, and the Labour Force: A Framework -- The Post-War Period: 1945-60 (Cohort 1) -- The Next Wave: Immigration Intake 1961-77 (Cohorts 2 and 3) -- Visible Minority as a Redefinition of Race -- Ethnicity and Earnings -- Conclusions -- The Mechanics of the Angle-of-Distance Measure (Arccos (rp)) -- Desperately Seeking Census: The Reconstruction of the 1961 Census of Canada Database -- 1962 Regulations -- 1967 Regulations: Independent Applicants -- 1967 Regulations: Nominated Relatives -- Concordance Table: Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) 1960-70 -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

First, Canada's primary source for immigrants has shifted dramatically from the United Kingdom and Europe to countries outside Europe. Second there has been a remarkable transformation in the nature of work: Canada's economy has changed from relying on resource extraction to an emphasis on manufacturing, and presently is emerging as post-industrial and knowledge-based. Pendakur combines an analysis of parliamentary debates on immigration issues with an evaluation of the regulatory and policy changes that resulted from



these discussions and an analysis of how the work of immigrants changed over a five-decade. He then provides both a political and quantitative analysis by looking at issues that affect not only immigrants but minorities born in Canada in order to assess the degree to which labour market discrimination exists and whether employment equity programs are needed.