scholarly journals Opportunities for Employers in Immigrant Labour Market integration: a Case Study of the Canadian Financial Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Caroline Burke
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
History Of ◽  
Employment Of Immigrants

The focus of this study is on the financial sector, and it asks two questions: a) what are financial institutions currently doing in terms of assisting in the labour market integration of newcomers? and b) where are the opportunities for improvement within the financial sector with respect to the employment of immigrants? The study examines current achievements regarding the sector’s successful labour market integration of immigrants, opportunities for improvement, and recommendations as to how the financial sector can become a leader in this domain as well as the benefits of doing so. Some key findings are that there is a gap in terms of the successful integration and inclusion of immigrants in the labour market despite recognition of the business case for diversity. Ingrained biases and beliefs persist, and the communication patterns and ‘rigid’ history of the financial sector are not maturing at the same pace as the global economy.

scholarly journals Opportunities for Employers in Immigrant Labour Market integration: a Case Study of the Canadian Financial Sector

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Caroline Burke
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Global Economy ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Financial Sector ◽  
Business Case ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
History Of ◽  
Employment Of Immigrants

The focus of this study is on the financial sector, and it asks two questions: a) what are financial institutions currently doing in terms of assisting in the labour market integration of newcomers? and b) where are the opportunities for improvement within the financial sector with respect to the employment of immigrants? The study examines current achievements regarding the sector’s successful labour market integration of immigrants, opportunities for improvement, and recommendations as to how the financial sector can become a leader in this domain as well as the benefits of doing so. Some key findings are that there is a gap in terms of the successful integration and inclusion of immigrants in the labour market despite recognition of the business case for diversity. Ingrained biases and beliefs persist, and the communication patterns and ‘rigid’ history of the financial sector are not maturing at the same pace as the global economy.

scholarly journals How Delayed is “Delayed Integration”? Estimating Transitions out of Unemployment Spells Using Discrete-Time Survival Models

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Oxana Krutova ◽  
Tapio Nummi
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Survival Models ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Time Period ◽  
Gender Education ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants ◽  
The Many ◽  
Unemployment Spells ◽  
Ending Process

This paper studies the duration patterns of unemployment spells for immigrants and the determinants of unemployment’s completion into one of a number of studied labour market states in Finland. We estimate a duration model for unemployment with competing risks of its terminating into employment, labour market training or economic inactivity. Taking into account the wide period of observation and opportunities to analyse processes of labour market integration during various periods of economic development in Finland, in combination with the individualistic character of the labour careers of immigrants, this research is beneficial owing to the many various findings concerning labour market integration of immigrants. The approach undertaken in this research has a dualistic “descriptive-dynamic” character under which integration is understood as a never-ending process, which is conditioned by a time period of long-term existence and a context of solitary action. We find that transitions out of unemployment spells have a cyclical character; after every new “cycle” in unemployment, the probability of terminating unemployment decreases further. We also find that ascriptive factors make sense in the process of job-placement of immigrants from unemployment. Therefore, the gender, education and age of immigrants, as well as the effect of the period in which first unemployment occurred, potentially predict transitions out of unemployment and further labour market integration of immigrants.

Highly skilled migration in the urban Arctic: a Norwegian case study on skilled migrant labour market integration

Polar Record ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 48 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-258 ◽  
Author(s):  
Trine Medby Fossland
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Skilled Migration ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Highly Skilled Migration ◽  
Local Labour ◽  
Highly Skilled Migrants ◽  
Labour Market Participation ◽  
Highly Skilled

ABSTRACTArctic Norway is a region with a shortage of highly skilled professionals and international expertise, in many work sectors. Fast growing cites attract people from other regions and also high skilled migrants. It is a paradox that skilled migrants often fail to get qualified work in the local labour market. To understand this and to capture the complexity of labour market participation, this article draws on interviews with recruitment agencies and highly skilled migrants, attending a recruitment programme initiated by the ‘Confederation of Norwegian Business and Industry in Norway’. This paper draws on recent literature on highly skilled migration and analyses the complex and relational sides of labour market integration for skilled migrants in an urban Arctic town.

scholarly journals Labour market integration of immigrants in Portugal in times of austerity: resilience,in situresponses and re-emigration

2017 ◽  
Vol 44 (14) ◽  
pp. 2375-2391 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alina Isabel Pereira Esteves ◽  
Maria Lucinda Cruz dos Santos Fonseca ◽  
Jorge da Silva Macaísta Malheiros
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Integration Of Immigrants
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