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Hires and job openings. In January 2021, job openings reached a level of 7.2 million, following increases after the February–April 2020 recession. Job openings continued to increase throughout 2021, reaching a series high in December 2021 of 11.4 million. While hires trended in a similar direction as job openings, the increases were less ...
Mar 12, 2021 · The increase in employment is the biggest since September and handily exceeded analysts' expectations of 75,000 added jobs and an unemployment rate of 9.2 per cent.
Aug 9, 2021 · Economists polled by Reuters had forecast job openings would rise to 9.28 million in June. Vacancies increased in all four regions and the job openings rate rose to 6.5% from 6.1%. Employers have ...
- 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...
Oct 8, 2021 · All the job gains came in full-time employment, which posted an increase of 193,600 new jobs, and were split evenly between the public and private sectors. The economy shed 36,500 part-time positions.
Dec 26, 2021 · The record-high level of job vacancies was due to growth in overall employment and falling unemployment. Statistics Canada notes the 912,600 job vacancies in Q3 2021 was 62.1 per cent higher (349,700 more jobs) than in Q3 2019. Proportionally, the largest increase in job vacancies was in Saskatchewan, followed by Quebec, and Ontario.
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Dec 3, 2021 · Wages up, too. There was good news on the wage front, too, as the data agency calculates that wages during November 2021 were 7.7 per cent higher than they were the same month two years ago ...
