A Statistics Canada study finds complaints about a labour crunch cannot be attributed to a shortage of highly educated job seekers. Read on.
“The early diagnosis that we came up with focuses mainly on labour shortages. What this paper shows is that the early diagnosis was perhaps an over-simplification of reality and that we might need to come up with a more nuanced diagnosis of the problem,” he added.In 2022, the number of job vacancies in Canada averaged 942,000, about two-and-a-half times the average of 377,000 in 2016.
Those numbers aren’t an anomaly. Morissette writes that during every quarter from 2016 to 2022, the number of unemployed individuals with a bachelor’s or higher degree exceeded the number of vacant positions requiring such an education. The “something else” the author refers to includes an array of reasons, such as a skills mismatch between what is required and what a job-seeker possesses, newcomers’ struggles to get appropriate licences to work in their fields of expertise or to learn the language, or even an exodus of staff over deteriorating work conditions.
Tonie Chaltas, chief executive of Achev, a group that supports newcomers, said the paper highlights provinces’ need to break down barriers preventing immigrants from getting jobs.Article content
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