Social Planning Toronto and Newcomer Women Services Toronto

Newcomer Women Services Toronto: Between 2008 and 2009, the city self-employment rate rose from 15.7 per cent to 17.1 per cent, above the provincial and national benchmarks, says the joint report by Social Planning Toronto and Newcomer Women Services Toronto , according to The Star. Self-employment should be a choice and not a survival strategy for newcomers. It should not be a product of labour market exclusion and social safety net exclusion, said Navjeet Sidhu, a researcher of the study co-authored by Maya Roy and Beth Wilson and The recession of 2008 drove many Torontonians in the direction of self-employment with new immigrants taking the biggest brunt of the shrinking job market, according to a new study . Among self-employed immigrants, 39 per cent had lost their paid employment just before they became self-employed. Some 63 per cent reported earning less than $10,000 a year, compared with about 57 per cent for non-newcomers, says the report, titled The economy and resilience of newcomers, to be released Tuesday. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.