Fewer student jobs
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Many students rely on part-time and full-time jobs to pay for tuition, school supplies and other education-related expenses, but the labour market in 2009 provided limited opportunity for Canada's youth in the workforce.
The average unemployment rate for students aged 15 to 24 during summer 2009 was 19.2%, the second highest rate since comparable data became available in 1977 and significantly higher than the 13.8% in summer 2008. In addition to fewer jobs being available, for those students who had jobs the average number of hours they worked during the summer was down to 23.4 hours per week—an all-time low.
The labour market for 15- to 19-year-old students also proved to be challenging, as employment was down by 106,000 employees from June 2008 to June 2009. Their unemployment rate in June 2009 stood at 21.2%, compared with 14.6% in June 2008.
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