Research Guides: Organizational Behaviour & Human Resources: Labour Market Data

Labour Market Data

Labour market information covers a variety of topics including labour force trends, unemployment rates, and current wages by industry or occupation. A key source of this data in Canada is provided by the Government of Canada.

Ontario

Ontario Labour Market
Provides labour data by region and job profiles including income and education requirements.
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
Includes information on jobs, employment, and economic development,

Canada

Job Bank - Labour Market Information (Government of Canada)
Understand the labour market in Canada. Explore job market trends by location or by industry.
Job Bank - Trend Analysis (Government of Canada)
Discover the employment prospects for jobs across Canada, or compare different occupations.
Labour Program (Government of Canada)
The Labour Program promotes safe, healthy, fair and inclusive work conditions and cooperative workplace relations. The Labour Program is a federal institution that is part of Employment and Social Development Canada.
Statistics Canada - Labour
Analysis of labour and income data on a wide range of topics.

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- Includes commentaries, collective bargaining materials and summaries, case law, and legislation pertaining to labour in Canada.
- Permitted Uses
- Includes access to Labour Arbitration Cases (1948 - ), Canadian Labour Arbitration Summaries (1986 -), complete coverage of labour-related court decisions published in Carswell and Canada Law Book law reports, unreported court decisions (1977 - ), labour-related board decisions from across Canada, labour and employment legislation from all jurisdictions in Canada, and commentary from Canadian Labour Arbitration, Fourth Edition (Brown & Beatty), Canadian Labour Law, Second Edition (Adams), Willis & Winkler on Leading Labour Cases, Collective Bargaining & Agreement (Corry), Collective Agreement Handbook, Third Edition (Saxe & McLean)
- Coverage: 1982 - Present

United States

U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Topics include inflation and prices, pay and benefits, employment, unemployment and productivity.

International

Eurostat Labour Market Overview
Incudes job vacancies, labour cost structure (labour cost survey) and evolution (labour cost index), earnings (such as gross and net earnings, gender pay gap, minimum wages), and quality of employment.
International Labour Organization - Data and Statistics
ILOSTAT database includes labour statistics and estimates from over 200 countries 1969-present. Other databases cover international labour standards, key indicators of the labour market, national labour, social security, legislation.
OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics
The OECD Employment and Labour Market Statistics database includes a range of annual labour market statistics and indicators from 1960 broken down by sex and age as well as information about part-time and short-time workers, job tenure, hours worked, unemployment duration, trade union, employment protection legislation, minimum wages, labour market programmes for OECD countries and non-member economies.