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<h1 style="text-align: center;">BC job market (2016)</h1> <h2>[WHAT]</h2> <ol> <li>] by <a href="http://www.policynote.ca/author/iglika-ivanova/" target="_blank">iglika-ivanova</a> @policynote.ca - ivanova summarizes some of the findings about the BC job market</li> </ol> <h2>[WHY]</h2> <ol> <li>] </li> </ol> <h2>[WHERE]</h2> <ol> <li><strong>] READ THE FULL ARTICLE</strong></li> <ol> <li>] <a href="http://www.policynote.ca/bcs-job-market-is-weaker-than-the-government-would-like-you-to-believe/" target="_blank">http://www.policynote.ca/bcs-job-market-is-weaker-than-the-government-would-like-you-to-believe/</a></li> </ol></ol> <h2>[WHEN]</h2> <ol> <li>] 2016-02-18</li> </ol> <h2>[EXAMPLE]</h2> <ol> <li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] Christy Clark - "British Columbia’s economy leads Canada. … In 2015, we led Canada by <strong>creating more than 50,000 new jobs."</strong></span></li> <li>] <a href="http://www.vancouversun.com/business/pessimism+growing+over+economy+poll/11666145/story.html?__lsa=b515-ee6b" target="_blank">recent polling</a> which found that nearly half of British Columbians see the economic conditions in BC as “poor” or “very poor”. </li> <li>] Two in five said they were planning to reduce the family spending on entertainment and meals in 2016.</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">] <a href="http://www5.statcan.gc.ca/cansim/a26?lang=eng&retrLang=eng&id=2820002&pattern=lfs&tabMode=dataTable&srchLan=-1&p1=1&p2=-1" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: #ffff99;">Statistics Canada</span></a>, this shows that the BC economy created <strong>27,800 new jobs</strong> in 2015</span> (2,306,200 jobs in 2015 minus 2,278,400 jobs 2014).</li> <li>] All in, BC’s employment growth in 2015 wasn’t particularly strong – 27,800 new jobs represent only <span style="background-color: #ffff99;">a 1.2% increase in employment.</span> That’s enough to keep up with population growth, but it’s hardly something to brag about.</li> <li>] In 2015, BC saw the second-lowest increase in private sector paid positions since the end of the 2008/09 recession. BC’s private sector created only 5,600 paid positions in 2015, compared to 4,700 new paid positions in the public sector and <span style="background-color: #ffff99;">17,600 self-employment “jobs”.</span></li> <li>] While BC had the <a href="http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160211/t001a-eng.htm">highest vacancy rate</a> of all provinces in the third quarter of 2015, BC’s job vacancies offered one of the <a href="http://www.statcan.gc.ca/daily-quotidien/160211/t003a-eng.htm">lowest average wages</a> in the country, $17.65/hour. Only job postings in PEI, NB and NS offered lower wages.</li> <li><span style="background-color: #ffff00;">] Among the ten occupations with the most job vacancies in BC, five paid less than $12/hour and only two paid more than $15/hour.</span> These ten occupations accounted for 43% of BC job vacancies in the third quarter of 2015.</li> <li>] we can’t forget this employment growth comes on the heels of two years of particularly weak job creation, when the BC economy only added a total of 16,000 jobs.</li> <li>] <span style="background-color: #ffff99;">Only 71.3% of working age British Columbians had a job in 2015.</span> Despite the recent pick-up, BC needs more than 79,000 new jobs to return to the pre-recession employment rate for working age British Columbians. That’s more jobs that have been created in the last four years. combined.</li> </ol> <h2>[HOW-TO]</h2> <ol> <li>]</li> </ol> <h2>[REFERENCE]</h2> <ol> <li>] SRC = /r/vancouver, <a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/vancouver/comments/4688d9/bcs_job_market_is_weaker_than_the_government/" target="_blank">comments</a> </li> <li><span style="background-color: #ffff00;">x] # 5093 - <span><a href="/view/article?id=5093" target="_blank">job-market-quality-in-decline</a><span style="background-color: #ffffff;"> - ] by TAVIA GRANT, BILL CURRY AND DAVID KENNEDY @theglobeandmail.com - ] 2015-03-05 report on CIBC study indicating detoriaiting quality of jobs in Canada</span></span></span></li> <li><strong>] +++</strong></li> <li>] REL = cibc report</li> <li> </li> </ol> <h1 style="text-align: center;"> </h1>