Unemployment rates for young Canadians have remained about the same over the last 40 years but the quality of the jobs they hold has declined. Government statistics show that fewer now work in full-time jobs than did in 1976, mostly because of an increase in part-time work.
Of those who do have full-time jobs, a greater percentage work in temporary jobs.
An international trend
Statistics Canada says this is a trend observed in many OECD countries and is part of an international trend of increasing part-time and temporary jobs as compared to full-time work.
The drop in full-time work in Canada also extends to men. Of working men in the 35 to 54 age group, 89 per cent were employed full-time in the late 1970s. By the mid-2010s only 82 per cent had full-time work.
Of women in the same age group, 37 per cent worked full-time in the late 1970s and 64 per cent did in the mid-2010s.
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