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Canadian HR Reporter, a Thomson Reuters business 2014
June 30, 2014
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ongoing employment
among older workers in Canada
A study from Statistics Canada examined the employment of older workers in Canada for more than a decade following an exit from a
long-term job. Defined as employment lasting 12 years or more, about two-thirds of employed Canadians entered their fifties in long-term jobs.
Older workers in the prairie provinces and the Northwest Territories were more likely to be re-employed after leaving their long-term jobs
while workers in Atlantic Canada were less likely.
Older workers who left their long-term job because of an illness or injury, who had pension coverage in their long-term job or whose long-
term job was in the public sector were also less likely to be re-employed.
More than one-half of workers aged 55 to 64 who left long-term jobs were re-employed within 10 years.
Workers 55 - 64
re-employed
within 10 years
Prairie provinces and northwest territories
more likely to be re-employed
Atlantic Canada less likely to be re-employed
Map illustration: Tatiana53/Shutterstock, Pie chart illustration: Mhatzapa/Shutterstock
duration of paid employment
following re-hiring, on average
Men who exited their long-term job 4.6 years
at age 60 - 64
Women who exited their long-term job 3.8 years
at age 60 - 64
During these years (4.6 for men, 3.8 for women) individuals typically had earnings of about 18 per cent of those they received when employed in
their long-term job.
* Information courtesy of Statistics Canada
