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Canada / Increases in immigration level bring immigrants real wages down
The annual level of immigration is one of the most critical components of a country’s immigration policy. It is difficult to directly compare the costs and benefits of changing immigration levels because immigration can serve multiple goals. However, some narrowly-defined effects can be empirically assessed. This study considers solely the potential influence of immigration levels … Continue reading
Canada Job Grant / Provinces react to budget measures
New budget measures aimed at delivering the government’s controversial Canada Job Grant program have upset some provinces in the middle of already fragile negotiations with Employment Minister Jason Kenney. “We were offered a take it or leave it Canada Job Grant program,” P.E.I.’s Finance Minister Wes Sheridan said in a written statement Tuesday evening… The Quebec … Continue reading
Canada / Skills gap top barrier to competitiveness says Chamber of Commerce
The Canadian Chamber of Commerce has unveiled its Top 10 Barriers to Competitiveness for 2014, identifying Canada’s growing skills gap as the greatest impediment to business success. Launched in 2012, the initiative is meant to draw attention to barriers holding back Canada’s progress and to urge swift action by the government to improve the country’s … Continue reading
Canada Job Report / Employment rose by 29,000 in January
Employment rose by 29,000 in January, the result of an increase in full-time work. The unemployment rate declined 0.2 percentage points to 7.0%. Over the past 12 months, employment increased 0.8% or 146,000 and the number of hours worked rose 0.7%. During the same period, the employment rate fell 0.3 percentage points to 61.6% as employment grew at a slower pace than the population. Chart 1 Employment Employment increased in Prince … Continue reading
Tech Jobs in Canada / Big data and business intelligence pay best
Gaming and animation may still be the sexiest jobs in the tech sector, but it’s the fast-moving world of big data and business intelligence that will earn you the best money, according to the 2014 Technology Salary Report. The report is published annually by the Toronto-based recruitment firm Lannick Technology and gives us a glimpse … Continue reading
Job Report in Canada / StatsCan’s numbers questioned
Put the Department of Finance on the growing list of observers who are questioning the accuracy of Canada’s unemployment numbers. According to documents obtained by the Globe and Mail, the department has concluded that volatility in Canada’s jobs data is “well above” normal. “The volatility of employment growth as measured by the [Labour Force Survey] … Continue reading
Home Depot Canada / Hiring 6,300 for spring season
The Home Depot® Canada is currently hiring 6,300 associates across all 180 locations to support its busiest season, spring. “Spring gives us the opportunity to find the best associates, who are passionate about customer service,” said Bill Lennie president, The Home Depot Canada. “From Vancouver to St. John’s, we are about building meaningful, sustainable careers.” … Continue reading
Canada / Could Germany’s “dual system” training work ?
In Canada, by contrast, apprenticeships are generally limited to the skilled trades—carpenters, electricians, pipefitters and the like—and attract a much older crowd with “significant” labour market experience, according to a 2011 Statistics Canada study. Only about half of the more than 400,000 registered apprentices will actually complete their programs, with studies attributing the low success … Continue reading
Best Buy in Canada / To lay off 900 workers
Facing pressure from online electronics retailers such as Amazon and Apple, Best Buy Canada will close 15 of its big box stores before opening smaller outlets. The move, which represents about 10% of the retailer’s square footage in this country, will mean layoffs for an estimated 900 employees. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read the … Continue reading
Youth and the Oil Industry in Canada / Wages, Employment and School Enrollment
Increased wages have a dual impact for young men: they tend to reduce their full-time university enrollment rates―at least temporarily―and to bring (back) into the labour market those who were neither enrolled in school nor employed. Continue reading
Immigration and Skills Gap in Canada / Skilled immigrants to be matched with vacancies
The federal government is looking to match skilled immigrants with unfilled jobs, in what it’s calling a new “fast and flexible system of economic immigration” it intends to have in place in January 2015. Under this new system, which the government has compared to “a dating site,” Ottawa would act as chief matchmaker between immigrants who want to move … Continue reading
Older Workers in Canada / Over one-half of workers aged 55 to 64 who left long-term jobs between 1994 and 2000 were re-employed within a decade
Many older workers who leave long-term jobs do not fully enter retirement. In fact, over one-half of workers aged 55 to 64 who left long-term jobs between 1994 and 2000 were re-employed within a decade Continue reading
Canada’s Job Record / Clearly near the top
According to the OECD, Canada comes out on top if you look at the employment rate of everyone over the age of 15 Continue reading
Manitoba / Why the Canada Jobs Grant will not work there
The Canada Jobs Grant will not work for people who face barriers to employment, especially Aboriginal Manitobans. As Shauna Mackinnon wrote in The Canada Jobs Grant: Perpetuating Aboriginal Exclusion, the new federal program will take money away from successful programs that are helping unemployed people get the training they require to move into the labour force. … Continue reading
Employment Insurance in Canada / November 2013 virtually unchanged from October
There were 512,300 people receiving regular Employment Insurance (EI) benefits in November, virtually unchanged from October. The number of beneficiaries has been relatively stable since May 2013. Provincially, Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick saw more people receiving regular EI benefits in November compared with October. At the same time, there was little change in the … Continue reading
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