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  1. Employment among immigrants of core working-age (25 to 54) increased notably in 2011, following a tepid recovery in 2010. This pushed their unemployment rate down 1.1 percentage points to 8.4%, while their employment rate edged up to 75.6%. At the same time, the employment rate for the Canadian born increased 0.5 percentage points to 82.9%.
  2. The employment rate gap between immigrants and the Canadian born remained unchanged in 2011 compared to 2009, the year of the greatest labour market impact in the recent downturn. However, the unemployment rate gap narrowed slightly over the period.
  3. The bulk of the immigrant employment increase from 2010 to 2011 was accounted for by those who had been in the country for more than 10 years.
  4. Immigrants in the Prairies and British Columbia accounted for more than half of immigrant employment growth in 2011.
  5. Most of the growth in immigrant employment from 2010 to 2011 was in health care and social assistance — Canada's second-largest sector — and in information, culture and recreation services.
  6. Between 2010 and 2011, employment increased among university-educated immigrants, mainly in full time and among those who were established for more than 10 years. For university-educated Canadian born, employment was virtually unchanged. As a result, the gap between the two groups in terms of the unemployment and employment rates narrowed compared with 2009.
  7. Core-aged immigrants born in the Philippines had the highest employment rate of all immigrant groups, even higher than the Canadian born, followed by immigrants born in Europe.
  8. African-born immigrants had the lowest employment rate and highest unemployment rate of all immigrant groups, and these rates were particularly notable among African born who had been in the country for 5 years or less.
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