Labor market developments in the United States and Canada since 2000: conference overview and summary of papers

These articles were presented at a conference in December 2004, convened to consider the disparity in job growth between the United States and Canada-namely, while the United States was struggling to create jobs, the number of Canadian jobs was increasing. The conference was cosponsored by the Canadian Consulate General in New York, the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the New York Association for Business Economics.