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Jun 23, 2020 · This Economic Insights article examines how jobs held by Canadian employees have changed over the last four decades, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses a wide variety of data sets to document the evolution of selected job characteristics from 1981 to 2019.
- Introduction
- The Employment Rebound Was Stronger in Canada Than in The United States
- Employment in Services Rebounded Stronger Than Employment in Goods Production
- Labour Force Participation Reaches Record Highs For Core-Age Canadians
- Conclusion
- Authors
- References
From peak employment in January 2020 to the employment trough in May 2020,Note employment in Canada declined by nearly 20%. This decline amounted to roughly 3.4 million jobs lost at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic.Note The impact of lockdowns on Canada’s labour market was sharper than it was in the United States, where total employment from pea...
In both countries, employment in the service sector declined more than in the goods sector (Appendix Table A.1). In Canada, employment in services fell by 20.2% from peak to trough, while employment in the goods sector contracted by 17.4%. In the United States, the declines were 14.6% and 11.8%, respectively. In both countries, industries that prov...
In both countries, employment growth in service industries recovered more quickly than it did in goods production despite a period of closures and reopenings in many service industries because of COVID-19 restrictions (Chart 1). One year after the lockdowns, Canada’s employment growth outpaced the growth in the United States, largely because of gai...
While the labour force participation rate in Canada (adjusted for U.S. concepts) has historically been higher than that in the United States (Bender, 2016),Note differences have been starker since the lockdowns. Much of this has been driven by record-high participation rates among core-age Canadians (25- to 54-year-olds). Early in the pandemic, par...
Following a sharp drop in employment during the COVID-19 lockdowns of early 2020, employment rebounded faster in Canada than it did in the United States. Canada’s employment returned to pre-COVID-19 levels by February 2022. Comparatively, U.S. employment did not reach pre-pandemic levels within the first two years since the onset of the pandemic.No...
Sean Clarke is with the Strategic Analysis, Publications and Training Division, Analytical Studies and Modelling Branch, at Statistics Canada. Andrew Fields is with the Centre for Labour Market Information, Labour Market, Education and Socioeconomic Well-being Branch, at Statistics Canada.
Bender, R. Measuring employment and unemployment in Canada and the United States – a comparison. Statistics Canada Catalogue no. 2015002. Ottawa: Statistics Canada, 2016. Clarke, S., J. Dekker, N. Habli. R. Macdonald, and C. McCormack. Measuring the Correlation Between COVID-19 Restrictions and Economic Activity. Statistics Canada, Analytical Studi...
Mar 11, 2022 · That's lower than the 5.7 per cent jobless rate seen in February 2020, before the advent of COVID-19. It's also just shy of the all-time record low of 5.4 per cent, reached in May 2019.
Jun 9, 2023 · Canada lost 17,000 jobs in May, pushing the unemployment rate up to 5.2 per cent, according to a Statistics Canada report released Friday morning. The decline is primarily driven by a 77,000 loss...
Jun 4, 2021 · Statistics Canada says the economy lost 68,000 jobs in May as lockdowns to slow the COVID-19 continued. The unemployment rate was 8.2 per cent in May, little changed from the 8.1 per cent in...
Aug 5, 2022 · Canada's economy lost 30,600 jobs in July, Statistics Canada said Friday. It's the second month in a row of lost jobs, coming on the heels of 43,000 jobs lost in June.
May 25, 2022 · This paper shows that in Canada, 92.5% of GDP per capita growth over the period from 1981 to 2019 came from hourly labour productivity growth that was partly offset by a 14.5% decline in work intensity, and 22% came from growth of the wide measure of employment during the same period.
