Studies by Dalhousie University’s Lars Osberg and the OECD identify marketforces as the main factor affecting income inequality in Canada and around the world. Forexample, globalization and technological progress are widening the disparity inemployment earnings between those who earn very high incomes and those who earnvery low incomes. With the globalization of production, manufacturing jobs in Canada havebeen outsourced to countries with relatively lower average wage rates. At the same time,wage rates and employment levels have increased in Canada for workers in highly skilledoccupations, especially in the information technology sector. Figure 9 shows averageannual wages in selected countries, while Figures 10 and 11 indicate unemployment ratesin Canada — including for youth, which remains high despite the country's economicrecovery from the global financial and economic crisis — and in selectedcountries respectively.
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