is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …

issue of Canadian Business Economics consists of a symposium of articles that explore this issue. The idea for this …. The Centre for the Study of Living Standards and Human Resources Development Canada then organized two sessions on labour … force participation at the annual meeting of the Canadian Economics Association in May 1998 where these papers were first …

demographic shifts on labour force participation in Canada. They use an accounting framework and plausible trend participation … Canada. They find that the ageing of the population has already started to exert downward pressure on the aggregate … participation rate in Canada due to longer life expectancy and the resulting growing proportion of the population in the low …

In contrast to the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s, the aggregate participation rate in … force participation in the 1990s in Canada relative to the United States, focus on supply-side factors at play in the … reduce aggregate participation. Enrolment rates for teenagers increased 7 percentage points in Canada between 1989 and 1997 …

participation in Canada in the 1990s. In the first article in the symposium, Pierre Fortin and Mario Fortin attempt to determine the …