В то время как наш федеральный премьер
Добавлено: 06 мар 2014, 15:32
.. оседлал боевого коня с соответствующей риторикой, состояние рынке труда в Канада совсем хреновое:
The Canadian Labour Congress is asking Statistics Canada to change the way it reports on unemployment, saying a deeper analysis of the data it collects would paint a very different picture of the country's labour market.
The agency's reporting of the past year suggests nothing much has happened in the Canadian labour market when, in fact, plenty has occurred, much of it bad.
Statistics Canada numbers have shown that Canada has recouped all jobs lost during the 2008-09 recession and portrays the country as outperforming the United States and most of Europe.
But in a paper released prior to the afternoon committee session, the CLC argues that while Statistics Canada's approach may be accurate it is not detailed enough to convey the true landscape of the labour market.
"The economy has not created enough jobs, and those that have been created are disproportionately precarious ... more Canadians are unemployed, marginally attached, or simply not engaging in the labour force," the CLC report states.
The biggest omission, says the CLC, is the category economists call "underemployment," which captures part-time workers who want to be full time, along with the involuntary self-employed and other underutilized workers.
That data shows underemployment is twice the 7.0 per cent unemployment rate and, among youth -- those in the 15 to 24 year age group -- it is almost 28 per cent. As well, there are discouraged workers who have stopped looking for work but would take a job if one could be found.
"As work patterns change, with greater use of part-time employees and other forms of precarious labour, the headline unemployment rate becomes less and less useful on its own," says senior economist Angella MacEwen, the report's author.
MacEwen notes that over 80 per cent of the 102,000 jobs created last year -- a tiny number in historic terms -- were part-time. The problem is especially acute among youth, she adds.
The most telling number is that the employment rate -- the number working as a percentage of the total in the age group -- is down to 54.5 per cent from about 60 per cent in 2008, he explained.
"The data we have does indicate youth is really suffering this time around," he said. "The fact of the matter is there are five percentage points of the entire population that used to be working that are no longer working; we're seeing a structural drop in the demand of youth labour."
Наших премьеров, как настоящего, так и потенциально будущего, впрочем такие мелочи не интересуют. Дж. Трюдо сразу отшил тематику, чтоб не приставали с глупыми вопросами: ".. we're in a world where some manufacturing jobs that have left Canada and will never return".
The Canadian Labour Congress is asking Statistics Canada to change the way it reports on unemployment, saying a deeper analysis of the data it collects would paint a very different picture of the country's labour market.
The agency's reporting of the past year suggests nothing much has happened in the Canadian labour market when, in fact, plenty has occurred, much of it bad.
Statistics Canada numbers have shown that Canada has recouped all jobs lost during the 2008-09 recession and portrays the country as outperforming the United States and most of Europe.
But in a paper released prior to the afternoon committee session, the CLC argues that while Statistics Canada's approach may be accurate it is not detailed enough to convey the true landscape of the labour market.
"The economy has not created enough jobs, and those that have been created are disproportionately precarious ... more Canadians are unemployed, marginally attached, or simply not engaging in the labour force," the CLC report states.
The biggest omission, says the CLC, is the category economists call "underemployment," which captures part-time workers who want to be full time, along with the involuntary self-employed and other underutilized workers.
That data shows underemployment is twice the 7.0 per cent unemployment rate and, among youth -- those in the 15 to 24 year age group -- it is almost 28 per cent. As well, there are discouraged workers who have stopped looking for work but would take a job if one could be found.
"As work patterns change, with greater use of part-time employees and other forms of precarious labour, the headline unemployment rate becomes less and less useful on its own," says senior economist Angella MacEwen, the report's author.
MacEwen notes that over 80 per cent of the 102,000 jobs created last year -- a tiny number in historic terms -- were part-time. The problem is especially acute among youth, she adds.
The most telling number is that the employment rate -- the number working as a percentage of the total in the age group -- is down to 54.5 per cent from about 60 per cent in 2008, he explained.
"The data we have does indicate youth is really suffering this time around," he said. "The fact of the matter is there are five percentage points of the entire population that used to be working that are no longer working; we're seeing a structural drop in the demand of youth labour."
Наших премьеров, как настоящего, так и потенциально будущего, впрочем такие мелочи не интересуют. Дж. Трюдо сразу отшил тематику, чтоб не приставали с глупыми вопросами: ".. we're in a world where some manufacturing jobs that have left Canada and will never return".