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Archive for 'Job vacanices'

Job seeker to Job vacancy ratio remains high

Statistics Canada has released their latest data on job vacancies today, in the Daily. In March 2012 there were 5.8 job seekers for every job vacancy in Canada, down from 6.5 in March 2011. This is mostly because there were about 57 000 fewer unemployed in March 2012 than there were in March 2011, but [...]

Posted by Angella MacEwen under Employment Insurance, Job vacanices, labour market, StatCan, unemployment.
June 20th, 2012
Comments: 1

The Budget, Employment Insurance and the Unemployed

Following  are the notes on which I based presentations to the Senate National Finance Committee on June 6 and the House of Commons Finance Committee on May 29. They summarize key CLC concerns with the Budget Implementation Bill. Lack of Consultation The significant changes to the Employment Insurance (EI) program proposed in Budget 2012 should [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Employment Insurance, Job vacanices, labour adjustment, labour market, skill shortages.
June 6th, 2012
Comments: 3

More on “Labour Shortages”

Here are the most recent Statscan job vacancy data by province. There were six unemployed workers for every reported job vacancy in Canada in the three months ending in January, rising to about ten unemployed workers for every open job slot in Atlantic Canada. Note that there is no information on what wages employers were [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Job vacanices, labour market.
May 18th, 2012
Comments: 2

Job Shortages? What Shortages?

Sigh. Here we go again. More evidence-free corporate policy advocacy. The Chamber of Commerce put out a report today – actually I can’t find much in the way of background research on their web site – which points with alarm to labour and skills shortages, and calls for a less generous EI program to get [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Employment Insurance, Job vacanices, labour market.
February 8th, 2012
Comments: 9

Are There Labour and Skill Shortages in Canada?

Further to my earlier post on this topic, whether or not we are or will soon be experiencing labour and skills shortages is a question of critical importance to the development of sound public policy. Next week, we will get some new Statistics Canada data on job vacancies which will help support a more informed [...]

Posted by Andrew Jackson under Don Drummond, Job vacanices, labour adjustment, labour market, skill shortages.
January 19th, 2012
Comments: 3