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International Employment Update: U.S. Resilience and Australian Exceptionalism

February 20, 2014 · by · in Canadian economy, International, Labour markets, Livio Di Matteo, The 2008-9 recession · 6 Comments

I thought it was time for an updated look at employment creation in the advanced economies given that we are now at just over five years since the 2008-09 Great Recession that walloped world economies.  I’ve taken the IMF World Economic Outlook Database employment numbers for the period 2007 to 2013 to get employment levels […]