Immigrants play an important role in bridging gaps in the labour market, both short and long-term. Statistics now confirm that the children of immigrants outperform children from Canadian-born parents in educational attainment thus adding another important benefit that immigrants bring to Canada.
These findings are outlined in a Statistics Canada paper entitled 'Educational and Labour Market Outcomes of Childhood Immigrants by Admission Class' and reveals that children of immigrants graduate high school at a rate of 91.6 per cent, against 88.8 per cent of children who are third generation or more.
At university, the gap increases, with 35.9 immigrant children graduating against 24.4 per cent from the established Canadian group.
In educational terms, third generation Canadians are also bettered by every class of refugee in both the high school and university graduation categories.
Only when it comes to average earnings does the third-generation Canadian group rank on top, at $46,100 compared to $42,900 for immigrants.
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