Canada's Labour Force Survey in 2005 separated off-reserve data into "Indian," Metis and Inuit, analyses of these data indicated 2.5 times higher rates of employment of non-Aboriginal than of Aboriginal peoples.
Environment and Planning A, vol. 40, no. 3, March 2008, pp. 676-695
Description
Attempts to assess the usability of Massey and Denton's five-dimensional structure of segregation for the study of settlement patterns of Aboriginal people in Canadian cities.
The American Journal of Drug and Alcohol Abuse, vol. 38, no. 5, September 2012, pp. 498-504
Description
Studied client characteristics, drug use patterns, and treatment needs in an urban treatment centre and the South Central Plains Tribal program. Compares data between clients.
Outlines structure of the program and makes recommendations to increase participation of First Nations and Métis in residential construction industry. Report forms part of the Bridges and Foundations Project on Urban Aboriginal Housing.
Comparison with non-Aboriginals using statistics on employment, income and education, as well as suggestions for developing three new indicators: governance, land and resources, and entrepreneurship and business development.
Canadian Journal of Native Studies, vol. 17, no. 1, 1997, pp. 75-101
Description
Verifies the social and economic impoverishment of urban Aboriginal women, especially female lone parents, and the increasing poverty of women in metropolitan Toronto.
Looks at land development through increased Aboriginal involvement in economic opportunities and business ventures as a means to improving Aboriginal employment conditions.
Includes statistics for demographics, family, housing, language, education, employment, and income.
Data from the 2011 Census of Canada and the 2011 National Household Survey.
Aboriginal and Islander Health Worker Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, January/February 1994, pp. 19-20
Description
Interview with coordinator of the La Perouse CDEP in Sydney about projects in urban, rural and remote areas. Aboriginal people on unemployment benefits can work for 15 hours a week and receive payment equivalent to the benefit payment.
American Indian Culture and Research Journal, vol. 22, no. 4, 1998, pp. 187-198
Description
Shows how declining agricultural results forced people to look at other means of survival, how the arrival of railroading provided the alternative employment opportunity needed, and how this all led to the departure of many Laguna to distant areas as wage laborers.
Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: [Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities]
E-Books » Chapters
Author/Creator
Nicholas Spence
Susan Wingert
Jerry White
Description
Discussion of educational attainment, labour-force activities, and the implications for program and service delivery needs..
Source for statistics is Statistics Canada's custom tables based on 2006 census for 117 friendship centre catchment areas across Canada.
Chapter from Urban Aboriginal Communities in Canada: Complexities, Challenges, Opportunities edited by Peter Dinsdale, Jerry White, Calvin Hanselmann.
Industrial Relations, vol. 70, no. 3, Summer, 2015, pp. 457-485
Description
Uses information from the Canadian Labour Force Survey of 2007-2012 to show that Aboriginal people were effected more by the economic crisis in 2008 than non-Aboriginal people.
Journal of Aboriginal Economic Development, vol. 7, no. 2, Fall, 2011, pp. 135-139
Description
Looks at economic conditions by examining employment rates between Aboriginal people living on and off reserves based on age, gender, geography and education level.
The Northern Review, no. 41, Resources and Sustainable Development in the Arctic, 2015, pp. 181-206
Description
Presents interviews with immigrants, temporary workers, and refugees in either Whitehorse or Yellowknife about their daily lives and plans for the future.
Aboriginal Policy Studies, vol. 5, no. 2, 2016, pp. 114-135
Description
Looks at how factors such as age, sex, education level, family composition, and total personal income affect mobility patterns. Data used from the 2012 Aboriginal Peoples Survey.
Urban and Regional Planning Project (M.PL.)--Queen's University, 2016.
Includes case studies of Westbank First Nation, Muskeg Lake Cree Nation, and Long Plain First Nation.
Looks at the city of Winnipeg's policy frame work for engagement with the Aboriginal community in the areas of employment, economic development, safety, quality of life, out reach and education.
Focuses on identifying demographic characteristics of the urban Aboriginal community in the Niagara region, current status of the labour market, student retention in post-secondary institutions, and existing service programs and providers. Uses data from key informant interviews, participant survey, and focus groups. Includes recommendations.