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"Canada’s jobless rate has ebbed to a five-year-low, reflecting solid job creation in some sectors and – in September’s case – fewer young people looking for work. The construction business has enjoyed a jobs boom. Construction has seen the largest employment increases in the past year, reflecting both a still-strong housing market and activity on the commercial side. Real-estate jobs are growing too, tallying one of the fastest rates of year-over-year growth. That said, construction hiring fell in September, and most economists don’t expect the spree to last. Alberta is, no surprise, still hot. Alberta has seen the biggest employment growth in the country, at 3.7 per cent. Its jobless rate is tied with Saskatchewan for the lowest, at 4.3 per cent. The wage gap between Alberta and Atlantic Canada has reached nearly $6 an hour, the highest on record, Bank of Montreal noted last week." Human Resources: services provided by workers (manual and non-manual); the sills and efforts that people use in an economy or a firm to produce goods and services; often called labour. Human resources include the productive services of farmers and factory workers as well as those of scientists and architects Productive Resources: labour of human resources; natural resources or land; capital resources, and the entrepreneur. All four resources are combined in production Natural Resources: "land," all the resources that occur in nature that have value and may be used in production. These resources include minerals, forests, water, and fish. Natural resources are considered by economists to be one of the factors of production Capital Resources: goods that are used in the production of other goods and services. Factories, machines, and tools are capital goods |