This study examines how the risk of job loss and the short-term earnings losses of laid-off workers evolved between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s. In aggregate, Canadian workers were less likely to be permanently laid-off in 2005-2007 than in 1978-1980, two comparable points in the business...

In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...

Au Canada, au cours des annees 1990 et des annees 2000, la selection des immigrants economiques s?est appuyee principalement sur le modele d?immigration axe sur le capital humain. Ce modele a pour premisse que selectionner des immigrants dont le niveau de capital humain est eleve est...

This study documents how hiring rates, separation rates, and worker reallocation rates evolved from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. It also examines how the pace of labour reallocation varied across industries, firm sizes, provinces, age groups, and education levels during the 2000s.

La presente etude vise a documenter l'evolution des taux de recrutement, des taux de cessation d'emploi et des taux de redistribution des travailleurs de la fin des annees 70 a la fin de la premiere decennie des annees 2000. Elle vise aussi a determiner comment le rythme de redistribution de la...