Major shifts in the economy pushed more of Ontario’s workforce into minimum-wage jobs — more than double the share from nearly a decade ago, a new study shows.
Nine per cent of Ontario workers earned the minimum wage in 2011, up from 4.3 per cent in 2003, a Toronto policy research organization said in a report released Tuesday.
“When we think back to what happened in the economy between 2003 and 2011, there’s been a lot of big changes,” said the report\’s author, Sheila Block.
“We had a real hollowing out of jobs in the middle of the labour market … the loss of those middle-income jobs, a lot of it attributable to the loss of manufacturing jobs, is one factor,” she said.
“The other factor is I think we\’re still feeling the after-effects of the 2008 recession in the labour market,” she said.
The study by the Wellesley Institute is based on Statistics Canada data.
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