Les déterminants de l’état de faible revenu au Canada : l’effet modérateur du statut d’immigrant
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2012-01 (degree granted: 2012-03-01)
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Master'sDiscipline
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Notre recherche a comme objectif de déterminer si le statut d’immigrant agit comme modérateur de la relation entre l’état de faible revenu et ses déterminants au Canada. Elle est basée sur les données du Recensement de 2006.
Notre étude cherche à comprendre s'il existe des différences selon l'appartenance à la population immigrante ou à la population native quant à la probabilité d’être dans un état de faible revenu. Également, nous avons accordé une attention particulière à la région d'origine des immigrants. Nos résultats soutiennent qu'effectivement l'effet des déterminants retenus sur la probabilité de connaître l’état de faible revenu varie entre les immigrants et les natifs ainsi qu’entre les immigrants selon leur région d'origine. C'est surtout chez les immigrants issus des pays non traditionnels que l'écart dans l'effet des variables est le plus marqué et ce, par rapport aux natifs. Les immigrants issus des pays traditionnels se trouvent dans une situation intermédiaire, soit entre les deux groupes. Par exemple, l'éducation a un effet négatif moins important sur la probabilité d’être dans un état de faible revenu chez les immigrants originaires des pays non traditionnels comparativement aux natifs et aux immigrants originaires des pays traditionnels. Par contre, l’appartenance à une minorité visible, le statut d’étudiant et l’intensité de travail produisent un effet plus important sur la probabilité en question chez les immigrants issus des pays non traditionnels comparativement aux autres groupes. La connaissance des langues officielles du Canada produit un effet négatif bien plus important dans le cas des immigrants issus des pays non traditionnels. C’est surtout les immigrants bilingues qui sont les moins exposés à l’état de faible revenu, alors que ceux qui ne parlent aucune langue officielle du Canada sont les plus touchés. Nous retrouvons les mêmes effets chez les immigrants issus des pays traditionnels, mais dans une moindre mesure.
En somme, cette étude apporte des nouvelles connaissances dans le domaine et permet d’arriver à une meilleure compréhension de l’état de faible revenu chez les personnes âgées de 15 ans et plus au Canada. The goal of our research is to determine the role that immigrant status plays towards the incidence of low-income status in Canada and to identify the determinants of such status. This research is based on data collected as part of the 2006 Canadian census.
Our study will attempt to illustrate the different factors involved in a heightened propensity for immigrants to find themselves in a state of low-income in comparison to the occurrence of the same situation in the native population. In addition, we have chosen to focus our attention on these incidences with relation to the country of origin of the immigrants. The markers we have identified which seemed to increase the probability of lower income status were not the same for immigrants and natives. Incidentally, immigrants experienced specifically distinct circumstances according to their country of origin. The variety of possible effects of each variable studied differed notably in the case of immigrants originating from non-traditional countries, in comparison with the situation of immigrants from traditional countries and that of natives. The situation of the immigrants originating from countries from where people traditionally emigrate to Canada tended to fit an intermediate position between natives and immigrants from countries where people emigrate less frequently to Canada. For example, we found that the level of education of immigrants had a relatively small effect on the probability of finding themselves in a low-income status among non-traditional immigrants, whereas it had a somewhat more important effect in the case of natives and of immigrants from traditional countries. On the other hand, being part of a visible minority, being a student or having a high-work intensity job appeared to have a greater effect on the probability of low-income status among non-traditional immigrants than it did in the case of the two other groups. We also discovered that knowledge of the two official Canadian languages played a major role – and increasingly so in the case of immigrants of non-traditional origin. This was confirmed by the experience of bilingual immigrants, who happened to suffer much less from low-income status than immigrants who spoke none of the official languages of Canada and were the most affected. Regarding knowledge of the official languages, we observed similar effects among immigrants from traditional countries but with a significantly lesser impact.
In short, this study introduces a new vision in the matter and provides better understanding of the factors directly affecting the incidence of low-income status among the Canadian population aged 15 and up.
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