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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)

factors affecting labour force participation of the major age-sex groups, the authors forecast a rise in the aggregate … authors expect increases in labour force participation for all age-sex groups in Canada. Between 1998 and 2006, the ….5 point increase in the aggregate participation rate is much smaller than almost all the increases in the age-sex group …

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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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