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BC job market (2016)

[WHAT]

1. ] by iglika-ivanova @policynote.ca -  ivanova summarizes some of the findings about the BC job market

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1. ] http://www.policynote.ca/bcs-job-market-is-weaker-than-the-government-would-like-you-to-believe/

[WHEN]

1. ] 2016-02-18

[EXAMPLE]

1. ] Christy Clark - "British Columbia’s economy leads Canada. … In 2015, we led Canada by creating more than 50,000 new jobs."
2. ] recent polling which found that nearly half of British Columbians see the economic conditions in BC as “poor” or “very poor”. 
3. ] Two in five said they were planning to reduce the family spending on entertainment and meals in 2016.
4. ] Statistics Canada, this shows that the BC economy created 27,800 new jobs in 2015 (2,306,200 jobs in 2015 minus 2,278,400 jobs 2014).
5. ] All in, BC’s employment growth in 2015 wasn’t particularly strong – 27,800 new jobs represent only a 1.2% increase in employment. That’s enough to keep up with population growth, but it’s hardly something to brag about.
6. ] 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 17,600 self-employment “jobs”.
7. ] While BC had the highest vacancy rate of all provinces in the third quarter of 2015, BC’s job vacancies offered one of the lowest average wages in the country, $17.65/hour. Only job postings in PEI, NB and NS offered lower wages.
8. ] 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. These ten occupations accounted for 43% of BC job vacancies in the third quarter of 2015.
9. ] 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.
10. ] Only 71.3% of working age British Columbians had a job in 2015. 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.

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[REFERENCE]

1. ] SRC = /r/vancouver, comments 
2. x] # 5093 - job-market-quality-in-decline -  ] by TAVIA GRANT, BILL CURRY AND DAVID KENNEDY @theglobeandmail.com - ] 2015-03-05 report on CIBC study indicating detoriaiting quality of jobs in Canada
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4. ] REL = cibc report
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