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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)
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005157596
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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)
. The Centre for the Study of Living Standards and Human Resources Development Canada then organized two sessions on labour …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481872
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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)
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 …
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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)
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 …
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650261
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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)
participation in Canada in the 1990s. In the first article in the symposium, Pierre Fortin and Mario Fortin attempt to determine the … 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 …
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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
economies and that Canada's inferior income performance reflected cyclical factors associated with poor macroeconomic policy … economic and labour market developments in Canada and the United States in the 1989-2000 period, looking at trends in real … income, population, labour force, employment, unemployment, output and productivity. The second section looks at the common …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650217
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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003
This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481840
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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s
Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650207
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Productivity Concepts, Trends And Prospects: An Overview
Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …
; the decline in Canada's relative international productivity ranking; and the widening of the Canada-US manufacturing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005650208