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Population change over the same time period is +23%. 31.6m to 38.8m Where did all the jobs come from? Are people not retiring? Spending less time in schooling?
by Scoundreller 3y ago
Population change over the same time period is +23%. 31.6m to 38.8m
Where did all the jobs come from? Are people not retiring? Spending less time in schooling?
It's wasn't a massive decrease in unemployment that could explain that.
https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/population https://www.macrotrends.net/countries/CAN/canada/population
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- abdullahkhalids 3y agoA large part of the population growth is from adult working-age immigrants. So the employable proportion of the population has gone up.
- BeefWellington 3y agoThat would make 23% roughly the floor then for public sector growth, assuming that the increase in population requires a corresponding increase in jobs like teachers, police, firefighters, healthcare, and all the other civil servants. The remaining 26% is the real question - who did huge hiring over the past 20 years?