Conditions for an Efficient Canadian Temporary Foreign Worker Program

The Case of Quebec

Bibliographic Data

ID3017807
AuthorsDominique M Gro, Dominique M Gross (corresponding author)
Year2017
Volume49
Issue2
Pages99-119
Publication date2017-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian ethnic studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3496 • E-ISSN: 1913-8253
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/ces.2017.0014
OpenAlexW2761253852
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited7

The goal of a Temporary Foreign Worker (TFW) program is to fill occupational labour shortages until local workers are available. Such a program ensures that fast growing firms can hire foreign workers to avoid a slowdown or a stop in their activities. A necessary condition for such a program is to give priority to local workers in hiring. In addition, in the medium term, shortages must be eliminated by increases in local labour supply. Hence, this immigration policy involves constraints to participating firms which must be strictly respected. Since its creation in 1973, the Canadian TFW program has experienced a large number of changes which made it more accessible. Among them, in 2002, the TFW program became available for all occupations, skilled and low-skilled. There is increasing evidence that the program has had adverse impacts on some resident workers in Canada. This paper shows that this is also the case in the province of Quebec. The main shortcomings are the absence of adequate information about the labour markets and low TFW hiring costs

Business · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economic shortage · Economics · Immigration · Labour economics · Migrant workers · Political science · Labor Movements and Unions · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy

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