Employment Rate: Employment

Employment Rate Dept: The data agency says the employment rate for what it calls core-aged immigrants those between the ages of 25 and 54 was 75.6 per cent last year. That was a 4.3 per cent improvement from the rate a year earlier, but it still lags behind the employment rate of 82.9 per cent for people born in Canada, according to CBC. "This was mostly because their growth in employment did not keep pace with the growth in their population," the data agency says. ECONOMY Unemployment rates in Europe reach record high Immigrants are less likely to have a job than their Canadian-born counterparts, according to Statistics Canada data released Friday. Despite the uptick, the employment rate for immigrants is still 1.8 percentage points lower than it was in 2008, before the economic slowdown started. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.