September 2020 - Interjurisdictional Employment in Canada, 2002 - 2016 - By: Kerri Neiland Barbara Neis

The Territories was the only region with an increase in the proportion of younger outgoing IJWs over the time period, but the increase was small, from 21.7% in 2002 to 23.2% in 2016 and the proportion of older workers aged 55 and over also increased from 9.0% in 2002 to 14.4% in 2016. [...] In the Yukon, the ratio ranged from 0.9 to 2.0; it ranged from 3.7 to 5.8 in the NWT and climbed steadily in Nunavut from 1.0 in 2002 to 7.5 incoming to outgoing workers in 2016. [...] In the provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, outgoing IJE followed a 16 similar pattern to the Canadian average, rising from 35,045 in 2002 to 42,400 in 2016, and peaking at 47,935 in 2008 and 48,770 in 2014. [...] Looking more closely at Atlantic Canada, trends in aggregate earnings from IJE tend to match trends in the pattern of employment in construction, rising from 2002 to a peak in 2008 before falling in 2009 and rising again to a peak in 2014 before falling in 2015 and 2016 (Figure 14). [...] In the Atlantic Provinces, there was a significant increase in the proportion of IJWs from 2002, peaking in 2008, especially in NL where the proportion rose from 8.5% in 2002 to 12.2% in 2008 (Figure 18).