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Selected geographical area: Canada

Average weekly earnings - Canada
(March 2024)

$1,235.68

4.2%

(12-month change)
Jobs held by men, environmental and clean technology products sector - Canada
(2022)

233,296

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Jobs held by women, environmental and clean technology products sector - Canada
(2022)

94,210
Average hourly wage, environmental and clean technology products sector—full-time jobs - Canada
(2022)

$54.12
Average hourly wage, environmental and clean technology products sector—part-time jobs - Canada
(2022)

$36.93
Employment - Canada
(April 2024)

20,491,000

0.4%

(monthly change)
Unemployment rate - Canada
(April 2024)

6.1%

0.0 pts

(monthly change)
Participation rate for the population aged 25 to 54 years - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)

85.6%
Percentage of immigrants in the labour force aged 25 to 54 years - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)

27.7%
Workers using more than one language regularly at work - Canada
(2021 Census of Population)

11.7%
Proportion of adults aged 25 to 54 years who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)

49.8%
Proportion of adults aged 65 years and over who worked full year full time in 2015 - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)

5.9%
% of workers using English or French at work - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)

99.2%
% of workers using more than one language at work - Canada
(2016 Census of Population)

15.4%

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581. David Foot discusses career paths Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19940041562
Geography: Canada
Description:
David Foot on the baby boom generation's influence on current and future forms of organizational structure in North America.
Release date: 1994-12-14
582. Three large urban areas in transition Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19940041582
Geography: Census metropolitan area
Description:
An overview of the changing industrial structure in the census metropolitan areas of Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver since 1971.
Release date: 1994-12-14
583. A Look at Employment-equity Groups Among Recent Postsecondary Graduates: Visible Minorities, Aboriginal Peoples and the Activity Limited Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1994069
Geography: Canada
Description:
Employment equity legislation is becoming more prevalent in Canadian labour markets, yet -- other than broad availability numbers -- the labour market experiencesof designated groups have not been well documented. Using the National Graduates Survey of 1992, this report profiles the early labour market experiences ofvisible minorities, Aboriginal peoples and persons with disabilities who graduated from Canadian universities and community colleges in 1990. In general, we find thatthe earnings of designated group members are very similar to the earnings of their classmates. However, we also find that members of these groups are more likely tobe unemployed and are less likely to participate in the labour force than others in their class.
Release date: 1994-11-16
584. Employment Generation by Small Producers in the Canadian Manufacturing Sector Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1994070
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper uses job turnover data to compare how job creation, job destruction and net job change differ for small and large establishments in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It uses several different techniques to correct for the regression-to-the-mean problem that, it has been suggested, might incorrectly lead to the conclusion that small establishments create a disproportionate number of new jobs. It finds that net job creation for smaller establishments is greater than that of large establishments after such changes are made. The paper also compares the importance of small and large establishments in the manufacturing sectors of Canada and the United States. The Canadian manufacturing sector is shown to have both a larger proportion of employment in smaller establishments but also to have a small establishment sector that is growing in importance relative to that of the United States.
Release date: 1994-11-16
585. Have Small Firms Created a Disproportionate Share of New Jobs in Canada? A Reassessment of the Facts Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1994071
Geography: Canada
Description:
The statistical observation that small firms have created the majority of new jobs during the 1980s has had a tremendous influence on public policy. Governmentshave looked to the small firm sector for employment growth, and have promoted policies to augment this expansion. However, recent research in the US suggeststhat net job creation in the small firm sector may have been overestimated, relative to that in large firms. This paper addresses various measurement issues raised inthe recent research, and uses a very unique Canadian longitudinal data set that encompasses all companies in the Canadian economy to reassess the issue of jobcreation by firm size. We conclude that over the 1978-92 period, for both the entire Canadian economy and the manufacturing sector, the growth rate of (net)employment decreases monotonically as the size of firm increases, no matter which method of sizing firms is used. The small firm sector has accounted for adisproportionate share of both gross job gains and job losses, and in that aggregate, accounted for a disproportionate share of the employment increase over theperiod. Measurement does matter, however, as the magnitude of the difference in the growth rates of small and large firms is very sensitive to the measurementapproaches used. The paper also produces results for various industrial sectors, asks whether the more rapid growth in industries with a high proportion of smallfirms is responsible for the findings at the all-economy level, and examines employment growth in existing small and large firms (ie excluding births). It is found thatemployment growth in the population of existing small and large firms is very similar.
Release date: 1994-11-16
586. Jobs! Jobs! Jobs! Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X1994003127
Geography: Canada
Description:
Between 1975 and 1993, part-time jobs grew much faster than full-time jobs. The article examines the labour market by looking at jobs rather than workers
Release date: 1994-09-06
587. Ever more moonlighters Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X1994003155
Geography: Canada
Description:
Having a second job is a growing phenomenon. Who are moonlighters and why do they moonlight? The characteristics of moonlighters and the work patterns of their second jobs are discussed.
Release date: 1994-09-06
588. The labour market: Mid-year review Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19940034616
Geography: Canada
Description:
An up-to-date look at the labour market and other economic indicators for the first six months of 1994.
Release date: 1994-09-06
589. Left behind: Lone mothers in the labour market Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X1994002136
Geography: Canada
Description:
The sluggish employment situation of lone mothers is examined in terms of their marital status.
Release date: 1994-06-01
590. Declining female labour force participation Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X199400235
Geography: Canada
Description:
A look at the recent decline in the labour force participation rates of women by age.
Release date: 1994-06-01

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31. Labour market imbalances: Evidence from the Canadian Economic Tracker
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300600001
Description: The Canadian Economic Tracker, released on May 16th 2023, is a new data visualization tool combining selected monthly indicators of economic activity from Statistics Canada’s Common Output Database Repository (CODR) into a unified, customizable interface. The Tracker includes six indicators: business openings and closures, employment and weekly earnings, job vacancies and vacancy rates, gross domestic product, the consumer price index, and the industrial product price index. Each data release for these series is automatically incorporated into the Tracker, ensuring that the statistics remain timely and up to date. This article is the first in a series which will uncover insights that can be collected from the Canadian Economic Tracker.
Release date: 2023-06-28
32. Inflationary pressures, wages and profits
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300600005
Description: The recent period of high inflation has prompted a number of studies examining its causes and consequences. Of particular interest if whether “greedflation”, the situation where businesses are taking the opportunity in a high inflationary environment to increase their prices above their underlying costs of production in order to garner higher profits. This article sheds light on this by investigating how labour costs (primarily wages and salaries), and non-labour costs (primarily returns to capital) are evolving relative to inflation.
Release date: 2023-06-28
33. Paid Employment, Self-employment and Gig Work in Administrative and Survey Data
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2023003
Description: This study combines survey and administrative data to examine the correspondence between paid-employment and self-employment activities reported in each of these data sources by the same individuals. The study also looks at the role of self-employment as a supplemental income source for individuals whose self-declared main labour market activity is wage employment.
Release date: 2023-06-06
34. Unemployment and job vacancies by education, 2016 to 2022
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300500001
Description: The increase in the number of job vacancies observed in Canada over the last few years has attracted considerable attention. This article provides new insights on this issue by comparing the number of job vacancies requiring a given education level with the number of unemployed individuals with such education.
Release date: 2023-05-24
35. Do university-educated immigrants recover economically from a slow start?
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300500003
Description: The selection of highly educated immigrants is based in part on the premise that they can better adapt to the labour market and will have, on average, better economic outcomes than less-educated immigrants. Earlier research indicates that this is the case. However, some university-educated immigrants have a slow start in the initial years after immigration. Little Canadian research has considered whether these immigrants eventually catch up with similarly educated immigrants who have early economic success. Likewise, it is unknown whether they outperform less-educated immigrants. Using the Longitudinal Immigration Database, this study looks at the long-term economic outcomes of university-educated economic principal applicant immigrants who immigrated at the ages of 20 to 44 during the period from 1990 to 2014 by their earnings level in the initial years after immigration.
Release date: 2023-05-24
36. Canadian regional labour statistics and inter-regional movements of paid workers, 2001 to 2021
Articles and reports: 13-605-X202300100003
Description: This paper focuses on the new regional labour statistics built based on the economic regions where people work. It reviews the methodology in creating these new experimental regional labour statistics. The data allow us to analyse regional labour markets as well as to track the flows of workers from one economic region to other regions.
This paper is the first that compares such statistics over an entire a decade (2010 with 2021) and investigates the extent that the COVID-19 pandemic restrictions affected employment and labour movements among regional economies.
Release date: 2023-05-18
37. Interjurisdictional employment in Canada, 2002 to 2019
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300300004
Description: This article presents an overview of interjurisdictional employment in Canada over the 2002-to-2019 period. Interjurisdictional employees are individuals who maintain their primary residence in their home province or territory while working outside this province or territory. The results are based on Statistics Canada’s Canadian Employer-Employee Dynamic Database and pertain to employees aged 18 or older earnings at least $1,000 in 2016 dollars within Canada.
Release date: 2023-03-22
38. Portrait of Women by the Relative Remoteness of their Communities, Series 4: Labour Characteristics
Articles and reports: 45-20-00022023001
Description: Using data from the 2016 Census of Population and the updated Remoteness Index Classification, this paper focuses on the employment and unemployment rates, full-time employment, representation in industries and occupations, and the employment income of women by the relative remoteness of their communities.
Release date: 2023-03-20
39. Labour market outcomes of Indigenous journeypersons in Canada
Articles and reports: 81-595-M2022001
Description: This study analyses the representation of First Nations people, Métis and Inuit journeypersons in the skilled trades population and their labour market outcomes in term of earnings comparatively to the rest of journeyperson population.
Release date: 2023-03-13
40. Measuring the value of women’s contribution to the Canadian economy: New insights based on recent work
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300200001
Description: Women play a key role in the Canadian economy as workers and entrepreneurs, and as providers of unpaid household work. Women are important contributors to the labour market. In this article, recent Statistics Canada research that focuses on improving our estimates of women’s contribution to the economy – through both paid and unpaid work – is summarized.
Release date: 2023-02-22

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