Foreign workers in the Canadian agriculture industry
Foreign workers are a growing segment of the Canadian labour force. Approximately 613,200 foreign nationals in Canada held work permits in 2016 - more than twice the number of foreign workers a decade earlier (294,300 in 2005). Since the mid-1960s, agriculture has been one of the main recipients of foreign workers in Canada, and several programs are available to agriculture firms looking to fill their employment shortages by hiring foreign workers. This study documents annual trends in employment and earnings of foreign workers employed in agriculture and various subsectors of agriculture, as ... Show more
Authors: Zhang, Yan; Ostrovsky, Yuri; Arsenault, Amelie
Published: Ottawa, Ontario, Statistics Canada, 2021
Resource type: Government report or paper
Physical description: 11 p.
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https://doi.org/10.25318/36280001202100400002-eng
