unemployment

Our editorial: The statistic used to be a good proxy for the state of the economy, but those days are gone. It’s time to revise what we measure.

Sticking with the job you have is often a good choice—but inertia can be a career killer, too. Here are the signs of trouble to watch out for

Here are four wise questions sure to impress an interviewer (and a few more that are better left unsaid)

With GDP and employment up, the present looks great. The future? Not so much.

While Western provinces have been hit hard by lower oil prices, federal money for retraining unemployed workers has failed to keep pace

Men don’t matter, unless they’re driving the economy

Public policy’s approach to youth unemployment is muddied by the fact the rate includes teens and twenty-somethings, who relate differently to the workforce

Feb. 9: It’s a busy week ahead. Plus, a look at the strength of Canadian and U.S. jobs numbers.

Everybody should maximize their advantages in creating a career path—and those who can stay at home should repay parents somehow

We’ll know soon enough if another mistake has been made, but the new jobs report fits with the slump that’s been underway for months

Statistics Canada is still refusing to discuss exactly what went wrong with its jobs numbers last month, or why nobody noticed it until several days after the survey results had been made public, except to say that it was a problem with a computer program that wasn’t updated and that more details will be released as part of an internal review sometime within the next two weeks.

Summer vacation wreaks havoc with our employment data