B ACKGROUNDER - FRONTIER CENTRE

• In Alberta and nationally, the percentage of employees in the public sector has grown at the expense of the self-employed. [...] 133 • FEBRUARY 2024 FRONTIER BACKGROUNDER TWELVE YEARS OF LABOUR IN ALBERTA: A TALE OF THREE POLITICAL ERAS Alberta employment growth trails working-age population growth Table 1 shows the growth of the working age population in Alberta from 2011 to 2023, the number of Albertans employed, and the percentage growth in the working age population and employed Albertans. [...] It’s worth noting that the NDP era stands out as the only period in which both the growth of the working-age population and the growth of the employed population lagged behind the national average. [...] 133 • FEBRUARY 2024 FRONTIER BACKGROUNDER TWELVE YEARS OF LABOUR IN ALBERTA: A TALE OF THREE POLITICAL ERAS The public sector grows at the expense of the self-employed Table 5 shows that in Alberta and Canada, the share of employment represented by private sector workers is about the same as it was 12 years ago, but the public sector has grown, seemingly at the expense of the self-employed. [...] In Alberta and nationally, the percentage of employees and how they in the public sector grew at the expense of the self-employed.