The Bank of Canada has increased its key interest rate by 25 basis points to 4.75 per cent, which is the highest in 22 years. UBC experts are available to comment.
Jun 7, 2023
Researchers at the Vancouver School of Economics have created a novel tool to assess the risks and benefits of reopening different sectors of British Columbia’s economy amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
May 19, 2020
Washington Post mentioned UBC professor Henry Siu in an article about the origins of farmers in California. In an analysis, Siu and his colleague Jason Long of Wheaton College found […]
Dec 5, 2018
Star Vancouver spoke to Henry Siu, an economics professor at UBC, about automation in the workplace and potential job losses. “Certainly it will take some jobs away, but it creates […]
Nov 20, 2018
A surge of 13,800 jobs added to Canada’s labour market in May helped drop the national unemployment rate to 6.9 per cent— its lowest level since July 2015, according to Statistics Canada’s labour force survey released today.
Jun 10, 2016
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