Highly educated and skilled immigrants are the most likely to leave Canada within five years of landing, according to a new report commissioned by the Institute for Canadian Citizenship (ICC).

Isn't it sort of obvious that the immigrants who are most desirable are most likely to move around? I don't see that as a solvable problem and while I can't find numbers I'm pretty skeptical that other developed countries look any different but I wasn't able to find comparable stats.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's solvable by offering Canadians better wages and working to lower the cost of living in Canada.

Getting a raise under 2% year over year when inflation went in the double digits in the pas 5 years, along with an out of control housing market, it's no surprise people are GTFO of Canada. Living in Canada is too expensive for the little pay we're getting.

[–] saigot@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That might make immigrants (and people) in general leave less, but I don't see how that would make high skilled immmigrants leave less than low skill immigrants, which is what the report is measuring.

[–] cyborganism@piefed.ca 1 points 4 months ago

I dunno. Maybe the low skills immigrants are coming from countries where the standard of living isn't as good as here, and finding a job in another country when ou have a low skill level is inevitably more difficult than if you're skilled. No?