Labour force participation of immigrant women in Canada: With a special focus on female immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa

Abstract

AbstractUsing the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC) and the linked LSIC‐Longitudinal Immigration Database (IMDB), this study finds that of all immigrant women in Canada, those from the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region have the lowest labour force participation rate. After controlling for various socioeconomic factors and employing logistic regressions on multiple rounds of the LSIC and LSIC‐IMDB datasets, this study claims that patriarchal gender roles may have survived for MENA women even after a few years of living in Canada, resulting in relatively low labour force participation.