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In a June 7, 2008 article in The Globe and Mail, Heather Scoffield wrote that for the first time since 1982, Canada's unemployment rate was lower than that of the United States. Scoffield said that this indicated that the economic recession was "less painful in Canada" where the May unemployment rate was 6.1% while the US rate was 5.5%. [37]
The lowest level of national unemployment came in 1947 with a 2.2% unemployment rate, a result of the smaller pool of available workers caused by casualties from the Second World War. The highest level of unemployment throughout Canada was set in December 1982, when the early 1980s recession resulted in 13.1% of the adult population being out ...
Unemployment rate (2021) [1] This is a list of countries by unemployment rate.Methods of calculation and presentation of unemployment rate vary from country to country. Some countries count insured unemployed only, some count those in receipt of welfare benefit only, some count the disabled and other permanently unemployable people, some countries count those who choose (and are financially ...
Canada added a net 54,700 positions, beating analysts' expectations of a 27,500 gain, while the jobless rate dipped to 5.9% from 6.0% in November, Statistics Canada said.
Canada and the United States share a common trading relationship. Canada's job market continues to perform well along with the US, reaching a 30-year low in the unemployment rate in December 2006, following 14 consecutive years of employment growth. [149] Flags of Canada and the United States
This is a list of OECD countries by long-term unemployment rate published by the OECD. ... Canada: 0.90%: 0.89% 0.50% ... Current unemployment rates by country;
Thank America’s immigrants for killing the recession and keeping unemployment at 50-year lows, Nobel laureate Paul Krugman says Irina Ivanova February 6, 2024 at 8:14 AM
Here is how the numbers look in that comparison: Change in unemployment rate from February 2020 to February 2021: +2.7. Percent change in unemployment rate from February 2020 to February 2021: +77.14%