Evaluation of the Federal Skilled Worker program

Evaluation Division
Research and Evaluation
August 2010

The evaluation of the Federal Skilled Worker Program (FSWP), which addressed a series of evaluation issues and questions related to program relevance, design, implementation and  impact, is focused on the period after introduction of the Immigration and Refugee Protection Act (IRPA) in 2002 and related regulations and before the implementation of the Ministerial Instructions (in 2008). More specifically, the objectives of this evaluation are to assess: Program design and implementation, including timeliness, consistency and transparency of selection; and the impact of the program to date at the immediate and intermediate outcome levels, including an assessment of the economic establishment of skilled workers.

Table of contents

• Executive summary
  • Purpose of the evaluation
  • Federal Skilled Workers Program
  • Major findings and conclusions
• Federal skilled worker evaluation – Management response
• 1. Introduction
  • 1.1. Purpose
  • 1.2. Evaluation methodology
  • 1.3. Evaluation strengths and limitations
• 2. Program background and profile of Federal Skilled Worker Program
  • 2.1. Immigration to Canada
  • 2.2. Objectives of the IRPA
  • 2.3. Pre-IRPA and IRPA
  • 2.4. Assessment of skilled worker applications under IRPA
  • 2.5. Profile of FSWs
• 3. Evaluation findings
  • 3.1. Program need and relevance
  • 3.2. Economic outcomes of federal skilled workers
  • 3.3. IRPA, a new approach to the selection of FSWs
  • 3.4. Arranged employment offers
  • 3.5. The mobility of FSWs
  • 3.6. The effectiveness of selection criteria for FSWP
  • 3.7. The processing of FSWP applications
  • 3.8. Other program impacts
• 4. Conclusions
• Appendix A: Profile of Federal Skilled Workers surveyed
• Appendix B: Logic model for FSWP
• Appendix C: Comparison of Canada’s federal skilled workers program selection system with other similar programs in 2009
• Appendix D: IMDB regression results—Impact of the selection regime and selection factors on FSWS employment earnings
  • Assessing the impact of IRPA
  • Assessing the impact of selection factors
• Glossary of abbrs

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