{"id":594,"date":"2021-02-06T04:18:25","date_gmt":"2021-02-06T04:18:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/?p=594"},"modified":"2021-02-06T04:24:43","modified_gmt":"2021-02-06T04:24:43","slug":"unemployment-rates-for-youth-aged-15-24-remain-high-during-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/project.journalism.torontomu.ca\/jrn-305-2021\/2021\/02\/06\/unemployment-rates-for-youth-aged-15-24-remain-high-during-the-pandemic\/","title":{"rendered":"Unemployment rates for Youth aged 15-24 remain high during the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-drop-cap\">Regulations and restrictions regarding public health were significantly at ease throughout the nation as many Canadian households began transitioning into new back-to-school practices as well as the re-opening of businesses and other workplaces. However, with the implementation of new at ease restrictions, the increase in the number of COVID cases refused to decline.  As a result, Ontario along with the few other provinces was forced to go into lockdown for the second time. According to CBC, Premier Doug Ford announced the provincewide lockdown would begin on Dec. 26, 2020, and is still currently in place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With the rising amount of COVID cases, many small businesses and non-essential businesses have both temporarily and permanently shut down,  it has provided fewer job opportunities proposing a great number of changes in both employment and unemployment rates especially among youths compared to other groups. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to Statistics Canada, nearly &#8220;two- thirds (62.8 per cent) of young Canadians aged 15 to 24 enrolled in school in September, a level equal to 62.0 per cent in September 2019 (not seasonally adjusted).&#8221; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As students returned to school with several modifications with online and in-person classes, the Labour Force Survey reported that the youth unemployment rate was declining. However, it was still considered significantly higher compared to 2019.  Whereas in  December, the youth unemployment rate was 17.7 percent in total, essentially unchanged from that of  November.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/5182148\/embed#?secret=Xf6vnxXZb2\" data-secret=\"Xf6vnxXZb2\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>ONTARIO UNEMPLOYMENT RATE BY TYPE OF STUDENT DURING SCHOOL MONTHS,<br>MONTHLY, UNADJUSTED FOR SEASONALITY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-9d6595d7 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\" style=\"flex-basis:100%\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-group\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container is-layout-flow wp-block-group-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Additionally, according to Labour Force Survey, employment among young people improved in September of last year. The increases in employment rate increased for young women (+5.7%) and young men (+6.0%). Amid these monthly increases, jobs were further from to their maximum recovery for young people compared for other large age groups reports LFS.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n <iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/5205233\/embed#?secret=EnFqaX0ECX\" data-secret=\"EnFqaX0ECX\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Ontario Employment rate by type of student during school months,<br> monthly, unadjusted for seasonality. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Whereas the employment rate declined in December by 1.1% in addition to decreases in part-time employment (-5.1%) although the LFS reported that there was an increase in full-time work (+2,7%). &#8220;These changes were primarily driven by female youth, with both full-time and part-time work being little changed for male youth,&#8221; according to LFS.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The labour force participation rate also &#8220;fell by&nbsp;0.9&nbsp;percentage points to&nbsp;63.0% for young men and was little changed at&nbsp;63.3% for female youth in decrease&#8221; as reported by the LFS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed alignwide is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/5202025\/embed#?secret=lEIUJNkpkS\" data-secret=\"lEIUJNkpkS\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>Total ONTARIO EMPLOYMENT RATE, Unemployment rate, participation rate <br>BY TYPE OF STUDENT DURING SCHOOL MONTHS, MONTHLY, <br>UNADJUSTED FOR SEASONALITY. (Male v\/s female) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-flourish wp-block-embed-flourish\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" src=\"https:\/\/flo.uri.sh\/visualisation\/5182327\/embed#?secret=x1vOLRMPdb\" data-secret=\"x1vOLRMPdb\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" height=\"575\" width=\"700\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>ONTARIO participaTion RATE BY TYPE OF STUDENT DURING SCHOOL MONTHS,<br>MONTHLY, UNADJUSTED FOR SEASONALITY.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>CTV News has recently reported that &#8220;in a matter of weeks as widespread lockdowns and school closures erased 212,800 jobs in January&#8221; of this year heavily impacting youths and mothers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;Even as their children have gone back to school with re-openings in parts of Ontario, youth and racialized workers have a cloud of uncertainty of when they may return to work because of lingering restrictions,&#8221;  said &nbsp;Kaylie Tiessen, an economist and policy analyst for Unifor on a recent article by CTV News. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Regulations and restrictions regarding public health were significantly at ease throughout the nation as many Canadian households began transitioning into new back-to-school practices as well as the re-opening of businesses and other workplaces. However, with the implementation of new at ease restrictions, the increase in the number of COVID cases refused to decline. 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