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蒙特婁銀行表示,加拿大資源密集地區的就業情勢強勁,但製造業中心地帶則顯疲軟。

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-- 蒙特婁銀行(BMO)表示,加拿大第一季就業人數減少了9.5萬人,這是自新冠疫情爆發以來最疲軟的表現,不過預計2025年第四季將出現更大幅度的成長。 蒙特利爾銀行在周五的勞動力調查(LFS)後指出,總體而言,過去一年就業成長非常緩慢,失業率略有下降。 然而,蒙特利爾銀行表示,這掩蓋了表面之下日益擴大的區域差異。 蒙特婁銀行指出,安大略省的失業率高達7.6%,是紐芬蘭和拉布拉多省以外最高的,接近加拿大整體失業率(非疫情期間)的最大差距。 在西部,阿爾伯塔省的失業率目前已低於不列顛哥倫比亞省,蒙特利爾銀行表示,這是自2010年代中期能源繁榮以來,兩省失業率持續低於不列顛哥倫比亞省的水平。儘管卑詩省、安大略省和魁北克省的綜合就業人數較去年同期下降0.4%,但阿爾伯塔省的就業成長率已加速至4%。 加拿大各城市的就業市場表現顯示,資源密集型市場表現強勁——卡加利、薩斯卡通、埃德蒙頓、里賈納和薩德伯里位列前五,該銀行指出。但製造業中心地帶則明顯疲軟——倫敦、溫莎、聖凱瑟琳斯、巴里和基奇納位列後五。 倫敦的失業率目前為9.1%,是加拿大最高的。 雖然部分原因可能反映出勞動力調查(LFS)範圍內人口成長的更大幅度下降(安大略省南部受非永久居民配額限制的影響尤為嚴重),但這些就業市場結果與BMO更廣泛的經濟觀點相符,該觀點主要受美國貿易緊張局勢和油價飆升的影響。

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