But the increase last month was driven by part-timers and self-employed workers, Statistics Canada said Friday in Ottawa. For all of 2018, the economy added 163,300 jobs — all of them full-time — for a 0.9 per cent gain that was a marked slowdown from 2017. But the nation’s aging workforce may not be able to deliver much stronger gains with the unemployment rate already the lowest in four decades. Article Continued BelowEven with the slowdown in job gains, the unemployment rate held at 5.6 per cent in December. Economists surveyed by Bloomberg predicted the national unemployment rate would rise to 5.7 per cent in December and a gain of 10,000 jobs.

Source: thestar January 04, 2019 13:59 UTC