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Canada – The job market is experiencing more weakness than is implied by headline unemployment rate
A senior economist at the Toronto Dominion Bank has gone a step farther. Randall Bartlett has created an index that takes into account all of the unpublished or under-reported data that StatsCan, the Bank of Canada and the U.S. Federal Reserve collect to measure the health of the job market. He calls his yardstick the … Continue reading
Canada – Precarious work has become the “new normal”
precarious work has become so entrenched it spans all age groups, gender, level of education and economic sectors, as recent research from the Poverty and Employment Precarity in Southern Ontario (PEPSO) project demonstrates. Far from a temporary situation, PEPSO shows how precarious work has become the “new normal.” While just about half of workers younger … Continue reading
Canada – Cumulative earnings varied considerably—both across and within fields of study StatCan finds
A new study that followed men and women over two decades found that . Using longitudinal tax data linked to 1991 Census data, the study tracked individuals from 1991, when they were 26 to 35 years old, to 2010, when they were 45 to 54 years old. Individuals were grouped according to their highest level of completed education and major field of study reported in 1991. The labour … Continue reading
Canada – To what extent has employment growth slowed among core-age workers? and other questions
Question: How does employment growth compare with economic growth in the post-recession period? Question: How does the composition of employment growth in recent years compare with employment gains in the early to mid 2000s? Question: How does employment growth in goods industries compare to service industries? Question: To what extent has the pace of private … Continue reading
Canada – Less wage discrimination for women, aboriginals, and visible minorities in public sector, not higher salaries overall finds the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
Women, aboriginal workers, and visible minority workers experience less wage discrimination in the public sector than in the private sector, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study compares the wages of full-time public and private sector workers and finds significant gaps in the wages of women, aboriginal … Continue reading
Canada – The job market is on a weakening trend
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper may be losing one of his political trump cards — his record on the economy — just when he needs it most. Canada’s job growth, among the strongest in the industrialized world after the global recession, has slowed by about half one year before the country’s next election, even as … Continue reading
Canada – 6.2 unemployed people for every job vacancy in July 2014
In July, there were 223,000 job vacancies among Canadian businesses, relatively unchanged compared with July 2013. There were 6.2 unemployed people for every job vacancy, little changed from 12 months earlier. The national job vacancy rate was 1.5% in July, similar to the rate observed a year earlier. via The Daily — Job vacancies in brief, three-month average ending in July 2014.
Canada – The top-ranked entrepreneurial communities in 2014
Historically, and for a variety of reasons, CFIB has found entrepreneurial characteristics to be strongest in Canada’s prairie cities and the urban areas that ring large urban cores. What they have in common is ‘newness’—the prairie economies have only been developed in the past 150 years or so. Only a few generations separate today’s urban … Continue reading
Grads in Canada – The expectation gap
Too many young people flounder around the margins of their chosen field, bouncing from unpaid internship to short term contract to coffee shop job. Youth unemployment continues to hover stubbornly around 13 per cent, only 2 per cent lower than its peak during the recession and double the national average. And the unemployment rate doesn’t … Continue reading
Canada – Age rather than gender becoming the new income divide finds the Conference Board
Canadians have become accustomed to tales of woe about the plight of young adults: rising tuition fees and crippling student debts; university graduates without jobs or unable to find anything more challenging than serving coffee; even those with good jobs and incomes stuck in their parents’ basements because of the high cost of housing. These … Continue reading
Employment Insurance in Canada, July 2014 – Nine provinces saw decreases in the number of beneficiaries
The number of people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in July totalled 499,300, little changed from the previous month. Compared with 12 months earlier, the number of beneficiaries decreased 2.9% or 14,900. While nine provinces saw decreases in the number of beneficiaries, these declines were offset by an increase in Ontario. Notable declines in July were in British Columbia, … Continue reading
Canada – Migrant workers will now receive the EI Parental Benefits
More than 100 migrant agriculture workers will now receive the EI Parental Benefits they were wrongfully denied by an Employment Insurance tribunal, in the wake of a successful legal battle supported by UFCW Canada, the Agriculture Workers Alliance, and argued by Niagara North Community Legal Assistance and the Income Security Advocacy Centre (ISAC). “That migrant … Continue reading
Canada – Aging population expected to go west
Canada’s population will shift dramatically in the next half century, becoming greyer, more diverse and more concentrated in the four Western provinces. A portrait of Canada in the next 50 years shows the country’s population could reach up to 63.5 million people by 2063 compared with 35.2 million last year, Statistics Canada projections show. The … Continue reading
Canada – For every job vacancy, there were 5.8 unemployed people in June
Canadian businesses reported 235,000 job vacancies in June, up 15,000 compared with 12 months earlier. For every job vacancy, there were 5.8 unemployed people, down slightly from 6.2 in June 2013, the result of more job vacancies. Unemployment-to-job vacancies ratio declined in Ontario and British Columbia In Ontario, there were 7.1 unemployed people for every job vacancy, down from 8.4 in June 2013, as there were more job vacancies in the … Continue reading
Canada – Labour productivity rose 1.8% in Q2
Labour productivity of Canadian businesses rose 1.8% in the second quarter, after edging down 0.1% in the first quarter… In the United States, labour productivity of American businesses rose 0.6% in the second quarter, following a 1.3% decline in the first quarter. For Canadian businesses, labour costs per unit of production increased 0.3% in the second quarter, one-third of the … Continue reading
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