Weakest job report in three years of Dimens start until the third quarter
Economists had expected a slight job profit for Friday’s release.
Doug Porter, Chief Economist at BMO, said in a note to customers that the Job report of July marked the weakest in three years, according to the bank’s report card. He noted that the total hours worked in July fell by 0.2%, which marked a bad start of the third quarter before the Canadian economy. “This is an unambiguously weak report … Although it is hard on the heels of an unambiguously strong report,” said Porter.
TD Bank Senior Economist Leslie Preston said in a comment that the work figures are often fleeting in the labor survey, but the unemployment rate is the most important statistics to look at. “The unemployment rate remained stable, but since it was due to the decreasing labor force, it is not a very positive sign,” she said. “We expect that the stagnation of the growth of the labor will continue, as a result of which the unemployment rate will not rise too high, despite the weak demand of work.”
Young employees in particular continue to struggle in a tough summer job market. Young people aged 15 to 24 lost 34,000 positions last month, while the employment rate for the age group fell to 53.6%-the lowest level since November 1998, outside the COVID-19 Pandemie. Statcan said that employment had fallen in various industries in July. The information, culture and recreation sector led job losses with 29,000 positions, followed by the construction, which lost 22,000 roles.
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The compensation for those losses was an increase of 26,000 in transport and storage, which marked the first job profit in the sector since January. Parts of this industry are affected by the American demand for exports and have disturbed the Tarief campaign of the United States in recent months.
Production, another rate -sensitive industry, placed its second consecutive month of modest job profit with 5,300 functions added in July. On an annual basis, employment in production has still fallen by 9,400 jobs.
Statcan said that the dismissal percentage – the share of the people who worked in June, but was dismissed in July – was almost unchanged at 1.1% of the same month a year ago despite the uncertainty bound to trade and American rates. But many of people looking for work have difficulty finding a job, the desk noted.
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Of the 1.6 million people who were unemployed in July, 23.8% were in long -term unemployment, which means that they have been at work for 27 weeks or more. Statcan said that this is the majority of long -term unemployment since February 1998, again with the exception of the pandemic. In the meantime, the average hourly wage increased by 3.3% in July, a June tick.
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