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Economic Recovery in Canada before and after COVID: Job Growth in the Government and Private Sectors
— Oct 22, 2024
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Economic Recovery in Canada before and after COVID: Job Growth in the Government and Private Sectors finds that historically, no other recent era of recession and recovery in Canada have been so dominated by government sector job growth compared to private sector job growth, with 8 out of 10 provinces' government sector growth exceeding that of the private sector.

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Our Incomes Are Falling Behind: Earnings in the Canadian Provinces and US States, 2010–2022
— Oct 3, 2024
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Our Incomes Are Falling Behind: Earnings in the Canadian Provinces and U.S. States, 2010-2022 finds that the median employment earnings—wages, salaries and self-employment income—of workers were lower in every Canadian province than in every state in the United States.

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A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007–2019
— Aug 7, 2024
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A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007–2019

A Comparative Analysis of the Economic Performance of Canada and Its OECD Competitors, 2007-2019 finds that over the last business cycle (2007 to 2019), and long before the COVID-19 pandemic struck, Canada was already underperforming other advanced countries on important investment, employment and productivity measures that are key to higher living standards.

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We're Getting Poorer: GDP per Capita in Canada and the OECD, 2002-2060
— Jul 23, 2024
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We're Getting Poorer

We’re getting poorer: GDP per Capita in Canada and the OECD, 2002 - 2060 is a new study that finds Canada had the third-lowest growth in GDP per person—a broad measure of living standards—from 2014 to 2022 among 30 advanced economies in the OECD.

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Recent Trends in Youth Employment
— Jun 27, 2024
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Recent Trends in Youth Employment

Recent Trends in Youth Employment finds that the median number of weekly hours worked by young Canadians (aged 15-24) has fallen 16.3 per cent since 1989 and youth employment rates remain below 1980s levels.

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Comparing Employment Income in Toronto and Selected American Metropolitan Areas
— Feb 15, 2024
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Comparing Employment Income in Toronto and Selected American Metropolitan Areas

Comparing Employment Income in Toronto and Selected American Metropolitan Areas is a new study that compares median employment income in Toronto and US metropolitan areas, and finds that the annual gap in employment income between Toronto and the lowest ranking large US metropolitan area, Miami, was $2,030 in 2019, while the difference between Toronto and the highest-ranking US metro, San Francisco, was $32,765.

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