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Declining population growth in Atlantic Canada has increased the role of immigration in the growth of its labour force. As Chart 1 shows, participation of new immigrants caused the Atlantic labour force to grow by only about 5 % in the early 1980s. During 1996–2001, however, new immigrants increased the region’s labour force by about 45 %, some nine times their earlier contribution. While this contribution was lower during 2006–2010, it still reached 34 %. However, the composition of immigrants in the total labour force declined between 1981 and 2010, from 4.5 to 3.7 %, while increasing nationally from 19 to 21 % (data not shown here).
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Akbari, S.A.H. (2013). Immigrants in the Labour Force of Atlantic Canada. In: Immigrants in Regional Labour Markets of Host Nations. SpringerBriefs in Population Studies. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-6244-2_4
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