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Impacts of Labor Taxation with Perfectly andImperfectly Competitive Domestic Labor Marketsunder Flexible Outsourcing
Koskela, Erkki - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2009
What are the impacts of labor tax reform on wage setting and employment to keep therelative tax burden per low-skilled and high-skilled workers constant in the case ofheterogenous domestic labor markets, i.e. imperfect competition in low-skilled labor andperfect competition in high-skilled labor...
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Decline in Youth Participation in Canada in the 1990s: Structural or Cyclical?
Archambault, Richard; Grignon, Louis - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
Of the three major age groups, youth (aged 15-24), experienced the largest fall in labour force participation and accounted for the lion’s share of the aggregate decline. Consequently, an understanding of the factors behind this development is essential to an overall understanding of the fall...
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Symposium on Labour Force Participation in Canada in the 1990s: An Introduction and Overview
Sharpe, Andrew; Grignon, Louis - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
A major development in the Canadian labour market in the 1990s has been the decline in labour force participation. This issue of Canadian Business Economics consists of a symposium of articles that explore this issue. The idea for this symposium came out of a December 1997 workshop on labour...
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Demographic Shifts and Labour Force Participation Rates in Canada
Dugan, Bob; Robidoux, Benoît - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
Labour force participation rates vary greatly by age, with persons 55 and over having much lower participation rates than younger persons. Consequently, changes in the demographic composition of the population can exert a long-run effect on aggregate participation rates. In the third article of...
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Structural Influences on Participation Rates: A Canada-U.S. Comparison
Ip, Irene; King, Sheryl; Verdier, Geneviève - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
. As the U.S. economy enjoyed low unemployment in both 1989 and 1997, the rise in enrolment rates was related to structural …
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Evolution of the Female Labour Force Participation Rate in Canada, 1976-1994: a Cohort Analysis
Beaudry, Paul; Lemieux, Thomas - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
The participation rate of women aged 25-64 rose greatly in the 1970s and 1980s, but has stagnated in the 1990s. In principle, this development could reflect either the poor growth performance of the economy this decade or the completion of the integration of women into the labour force. In the...
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The Changing Labour Force Participation of Canadians, 1969-96: Evidence from a Panel of Six Demographic Groups
Fortin, Mario; Fortin, Pierre - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)
are an index of job availability (the Help-Wanted Index), the real wage, the real minimum wage, an index of unemployment …, policy changes in unemployment insurance and the minimum wage, and structural transformations. The explanatory power of the … the value of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (nairu), in a non-inflationary cyclical recovery, the …
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In-Work Benefi ts and Unemployment
Tonin, Mirco; Kolm, Ann-Sofie - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
in-work benefits on search intensity, participation, employment, and unemployment,compared to a framework in which wages …
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A Comparison of Canadian and U.S. Labour Market Performance, 1989-2000
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2001
income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common … professional occupations; growing wage inequality; and the downward trend in the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment …. The third section examines divergent trends in the two labour markets, including the widening of the unemployment rate gap …
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment:Does Finance Matter?
Rault, Christophe; Vaubourg, Anne-Gael - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011
We explore whether finance influences the impact of labour market institutions onunemployment. Using a data set of 18 …
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