Alberta labour market tops North America
CALGARY — Alberta topped all jurisdictions in North America for labour market performance over the last five years, according to a report released Thursday by The Fraser Institute.
Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2011 Edition, which ranks the performance of labour markets in 10 Canadian provinces and 50 American states, is a composite measure of labour market performance based on five equally weighted indicators: average total employment growth, average private sector employment growth, average unemployment rate, average duration of unemployment, and average labour productivity.
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You are lucky to live in Calgary. Not only because of the labor productivity, but because it is just beautiful.
ReplyDeleteSounds like somebody is doing it right up there!
ReplyDeleteHopefully after the election in 2012 we will see some improvements, here in the U.S.
Big-ass tar sands will do that, eh?
ReplyDeleteBig-ass tar sands will do that, eh? TAR sands? Cheek.
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