This paper presents two key facts which call into question the value of unemployment rates as barometers of labor … market tightness. First, while both unemployment rates and unsatisfied labor demand proxies perform reasonably well on their … pairing the relevant unemployment rate and unsatisfied demand proxies. The paper also provides results which indicate that …

We use job vacancy data collected in real time by Burning Glass Technologies, as well as unemployment insurance (UI …

, Canada, and France. We argue that the same forces that led to falling real wages for less-skilled workers in the U ….S. affected similar workers in Canada and France. Consistent with the view that labor market institutions are more rigid in France … somewhat less in Canada, and did not fall at all in France. Contrary to expectations, however, we find little evidence that …

remotely one or more days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada …

gap has widened. We also find that unemployment in Canada was 2 to 3 percentage points higher in 1983 and 1984 than … unemployment in Canada is due to differences in the regulation of the labor market in the two countries. Minimum wage laws and … unemployment benefits are fairly similar in Canada and the U.S., and neither has changed relative to the other in the last decade …

We compare patterns of unemployment and joblessness between Canada and the U.S. during the Great Recession. Similar to … previous findings for the U.S. in Kroft et al. [2016], we document a rise in long-term unemployment in Canada. This increase is … us to model duration dependence in all labor force flows involving either unemployment or non-participation. To calibrate …

States, Canada, Germany, and several other OECD countries during and after the Great Recession of 2008-09. Unemployment rates … increased moderately in Canada. More recent data also show that, unlike Germany and Canada, the U.S. unemployment rate remains …