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Canadian Labour Stats

• Product: Employment, Earnings and Hours, November 2011, Vol. 89, no. 11
  Catalogue number 72-002-X, (PDF, free; HTML, free)
• Payroll employment, earnings and hours, November 2011
  In November, average weekly earnings of non-farm payroll employees were $883.96, virtually unchanged from the previous month. On a year-over-year basis, earnings rose 2.2%.
• Study: Firm entry and exit in Canada, 2000 to 2008
  Firm entry and exit are important aspects of business dynamics. In every year from 2000 to 2008, roughly 1 firm in 10 had either just entered the Canadian business sector or was about to exit.
• Job vacancies, three-month average ending in September 2011
  Canadian businesses had, on average, 248,000 job vacancies in the three month period ending in September 2011. For all sectors combined, the ratio of unemployment to job vacancies was 3.3. In other words, there were 3.3 unemployed people in Canada for every job vacancy.
• Construction Union Wage Rate Index, December 2011
  The Construction Union Wage Rate Index (including supplements) for Canada was unchanged in December compared with the previous month. The composite index increased 1.6% compared with December 2010.