You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. The impact of category of entry is similar in direction for men and women but not magnitude. By closing this message, you are consenting to our use of cookies. As is the case for other recent non-francophone minority populations, about half of Canada's ethnically Afghan population live in the Toronto Census Metropolitan Area2 (CMA) and about 40 percent live in the CMAs of Montreal, Hamilton, Winnipeg, Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver. 2020). The Housing Experiences of Refugees in Winnipeg and Vancouver, Social Support and the Significance of Shared Experience in Refugee Migration and Resettlement, Quand je Sors Daccueil: Linguistic Integration of Immigrant Adolescents in Quebec Secondary Schools, Challenges to the Economic Integration of Afghan Refugees in the U, Incidence of Major Cardiovascular Events in Immigrants to Ontario, Canada: The CANHEART Immigrant Study, Entry Class and the Earnings Attainment of Immigrants to Canada, 1980-1995. As noted earlier, between 1980 and 2015, almost 63 thousand Afghan immigrants arrived in Canada, the majority coming as refugees. [citation needed], In the Canadian Census, Canadians with descent from Afghanistan are classified as being West Central Asian.[1]. The Afghanistan mission Canada cant be allowed to forget. This latter finding is consistent with Pendakur and Pendakur (2015) who found that earnings penalties for male immigrants in general were higher in Montreal than in other CMAs. Where having a university degree increased the odds ratio by 2.5 times for women, for men the effect is on the order of doubling the odds ratio. As expected, being born in Canada has a strong positive impact, increasing the odds of employment by four times as compared to Afghan women born outside Canada. After controlling for other characteristics, women born in Afghanistan earn about 15 percent less than other female immigrants, while men earn about 18 percent less than other male immigrants. Two regressions are run for each of two samples (either all immigrants or only Afghan households). 8 The 2016 Census includes identifiers as to whether someone is active in the labour force (either employed or looking for work) as compared to not being employed, and not active in the labour force. This means that the Afghans are recent entrants relative to other immigrant groups in Canada. 2014: 161). Overall, the results are mixed. In Canada, there are approximately 10.2 babies per 1,000 people as of 2020. As compared to other female immigrants, women born in Afghanistan have much lower probabilities of being employed. In Canada, people (of the population) have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine. Looking at the core population, we see that 32,785 permanent residents born in Afghanistan live in Canada. Painter 2013; Schellenberg and Maheux 2008).6 This is unfortunate because as Bevelander and Pendakur (2014) and Mata (2010) show, there can be significant differences in outcomes between (and within) immigrant sub-groups. Having one child reduces women's earnings by 17 percent compared to women who do not have children, while having 3 children reduces earnings by 26 percent (coefficient of -.31). This could limit the ability to enter the home ownership market. Table 1, shows counts from the 2016 Census of Canada for the total Afghan population and our core population of interest the population 2064, are not in school full time in households of less than 14 persons. Due to the political borders at earlier times, some of these Afghan immigrants may have been ethnic Pashtuns, Tajiks, Uzbeks, Hazaras, Turkmens etc.