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This fall, Canada’s Parliament will debate a proposal to expand the Canada Pension Plan (CPP).? And over at the Behind the Numbers web site, I’m co-author of a blog post titled “Ten things to know about the CPP debate.” The blog post’s other co-authors are Allan Moscovitch and Richard Lochead. Points raised in the blog […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under Austerity, CPP, demographics, employment, income, income support, inequality, labour market, media, OECD, Old Age Security, older workers, part time work, pensions, population aging, poverty, privatization, progressive economic strategies, retirement, Role of government, self-employed, seniors, small business, social policy, taxation, unions.
October 29th, 2016
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Today Statistics Canada released their first set of job numbers since the ‘oops’ of July 2014. And the news was dismal. The labour market shed 112,000 private sector positions, the largest single month drop in the private sector since, well, forever. Coming on the heels of a mistake is unfortunate, but you have to think […]
Posted by Angella MacEwen under employment, labour market, self-employed.
September 5th, 2014
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Statistics Canada reported today that employers cut the number of employees by 98,000 in August, which was largely masked by 87,000 more Canadians identifying themselves as self-employed. As a result, the headline level of a€?employmenta€? a€“ which includes self-employment a€“ was little changed. Self-employment ranges from high-income professionals to people eking out a living doing […]
Posted by Erin Weir under labour market, self-employed, StatCan.
September 5th, 2014
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The headline numbers are bad enough: a€?employment declined by 55,000 in March, all in full time. The unemployment rate rose 0.2 percentage points to 7.2%.a€? The underlying numbers are ugly. The employment decline would have been worse but for a large jump in self-reported self-employment. The number of employees with positions paid by an employer […]
Posted by Erin Weir under labour market, self-employed, StatCan, wages.
April 5th, 2013
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Statistics Canada reported this morning that 38,000 people gave up looking for work in February. The official unemployment rate fell because these Canadians were no longer counted as being unemployed. However, this huge withdrawal from the labour force is a sign of weakness in the job market. Nationally, 25,000 of the 38,000 who dropped out […]
Posted by Erin Weir under Alberta, BC, labour market, Ontario, self-employed, StatCan, unemployment, wages.
March 9th, 2012
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Over the past several decades in Canada, tuition rates and student debt levels have both increased substantially. Yet,??I am not aware of much research seeking to assess either how exactly this impacts students, or how precisely students are making ends meet. A recent article in the Huffington Post–though not focused on Canada–sheds some light on […]
Posted by Nick Falvo under education, part time work, post-secondary education, self-employed, social policy, student debt, user fees.
August 16th, 2011
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Posted by Armine Yalnizyan under economic risk, labour market, macroeconomics, recession, self-employed, temporary workers.
April 11th, 2010
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CSPI have just published the second edition of my book, Work and Labour in Canada: Critical Issues. While this is written mainly as a text for university level courses, others may find it useful as a resource on a wide range of labour market issues and trends, including the role of unions. The book can […]
Posted by Andrew Jackson under economic crisis, labour market, manufacturing, Role of government, self-employed, seniors, skill shortages, social democracy, Uncategorized, unemployment, livescoreทีเด็ด
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January 12th, 2010
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