Calgary's unemployment rate continues to trend higher than the national average, but not for the reason you might expect. 

It isn't because local companies are laying workers off en masse — it's because people are moving to Alberta faster than they can find jobs. 

"We're going through a period of adjustment — it'll take some time for the labour market to absorb all the people," said Mark Parsons, chief economist at ATB Financial, an Alberta government-owned bank.

While job growth in the province h…