{"id":81398,"date":"2020-11-13T18:15:30","date_gmt":"2020-11-13T23:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/immigrationca.staging.wpengine.com\/advantage-of-privately-sponsored-refugees-erodes-over-time-study"},"modified":"2021-05-16T22:52:37","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T02:52:37","slug":"advantage-of-privately-sponsored-refugees-erodes-over-time-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/advantage-of-privately-sponsored-refugees-erodes-over-time-study\/","title":{"rendered":"Advantage of Privately-Sponsored Refugees Erodes Over Time: Study"},"content":{"rendered":"

Privately-sponsored refugees<\/a> have faster labour market success in Canada than refugee claimants, but the gap is eroded over time, a new study shows.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the privately-sponsored group are significantly more likely to find a job in the first year after their arrival, after four years the difference is negligible.<\/span><\/p>\n

The findings were reported in a new Statistics Canada study, entitled \u2018The Long-term Labour Market Integration of Refugee Claimants Who Became Permanent Residents in Canada\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe superior labour market position of PSRs shortly after landing compared with the other groups studied is not surprising, as they initially had a sponsor who volunteered to help them financially or otherwise for up to one year,\u201d the study says. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cHowever, over time, the labour market situation of RC-PRs improved at a much faster rate, eventually surpassing that of PSRs.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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The study compared the labour market outcomes of refugee claimants who became permanent residents, privately-sponsored refugees and government-assisted refugees, focusing on the first two groups.<\/span><\/p>\n

Using landing record and personal tax data, the study followed the candidates for up to 13 years after landing in 2003.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cCanada offers refugee protection to individuals who have a well-founded fear of persecution or face other personal dangers in their home country,\u201d the study said. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAlthough refugee claimants seek asylum in Canada for humanitarian reasons, their labour market outcomes play a crucial role in successful integration.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

After one year of landing<\/span><\/strong>, refugee claimants were far more likely to collect social assistance (66.5%) than privately-sponsored refugees (18.4%). Refugee claimants were also significantly less likely to report employment income (62%) than their privately-sponsored counterparts (81.6%).<\/span><\/p>\n

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However, after four years of landing<\/strong>, the figures changed, with an almost identical proportion of refugee claimants (21.1%) collecting assistance as privately-sponsored (21.0%). Similarly, 80.4 per cent of refugee claimants reported income, compared to 81.4 per cent in the privately-sponsored group.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Finally, after 13 years<\/strong>, just 11.4 per cent of refugee claimants collected social assistance, compared to 14.3 per cent of privately-sponsored refugees. Meanwhile, refugee claimants were slightly more likely (82.6%) to report employment income that the privately-sponsored group (79.5%).<\/span><\/p>\n

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The data shows that, despite being given a better start in Canada as a result of their private sponsorship, the benefits of that start for the privately-sponsored group is eroded over time.<\/span><\/p>\n

The study said: \u201cThe findings indicate that, although\u00a0RC-PRs\u00a0were considerably more likely to collect social assistance and less likely to report employment income than\u00a0PSRs\u00a0one year after making a refugee claim, their outcomes improved at a significantly faster rate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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Privately-sponsored refugees have faster labour market success in Canada than refugee claimants, but the gap is eroded over time, a new study shows. While the privately-sponsored group are significantly more likely to find a job in the first year after their arrival, after four years the difference is negligible. The findings were reported in a…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81398","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81398"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81398\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/immigration.ca\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}