Canada: Unemployment rate rose 0.1 percentage
In the first quarter of 2017, employment gains totalled 83,000 or 0.5%.
This growth is comparable to the last quarter of 2016 (+91,000 or +0.5%) and notably higher than the first quarter of 2016 (+36,000 or +0.2%), read the Statistics Canada website.
Compared with 12 months earlier, employment increased by 276,000 (+1.5%), mostly in full-time work. Over the same period, the total number of hours worked rose 0.7%.
(Reporting by Asha Bajaj,Image: Wikimedia Commons)
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