Canadians are increasingly concerned about permanent layoffs, as many feel job instability and the possibility of job loss has increased in the 1990s. Governments, confronted with a large number of permanent layoffs each year, need to know how to respond to improve labour adjustment and the...

Les Canadiens sont de plus en plus preoccupes par les mises a pied permanentes, car un grand nombre d'entre eux estiment que l'instabilite d'emploi et la possibilite de perdre son emploi se sont accrues au cours des annees 90. Aussi les gouvernements, qui font face chaque annee a une multitude...

Le present document traite du roulement de la main-d'oeuvre et de l'adaptation au marche du travail dans l'economie ontarienne, entre 1978 et 1993. Les principales conclusions qui ressortent de cette analyse sont resumees ci-apres. Le taux de mises a pied permanentes et le taux global de...

This paper documents job turnover and labour market adjustment activities in the Ontario economy from 1978 to 1993. The following highlights the major findings. Both the permanent layoff rate and the total permanent separation rate vary substantially from one industry to another. In 1992, the...

L'etude que voici a pour objet d'evaluer l'effet de la performance economique et des paiements de transfert sur les familles a faible revenu au Canada, ainsi que de determiner si cet effet a change ou non avec le temps. Des etudes similaires, realisees recemment aux Etats-Unis, ont revele que la...

The objectives of this paper are to determine the empirical relationships between economic performance, transfers and low income among Canadian families, and to explore whether these relationships have changed over time. Similar recent studies in the US find a weakening in the relationship...

Le present document i) examine l'envergure et la cyclicite du flux de creation et de disparition des emplois autonomes; ii) explore les transitions liees a ces mouvements; iii) evalue l'incidence de caracteristiques individuelles et de l'experience du marche du travail ainsi que de conditions...

This paper highlights recent developments in self-employment in Canada and explores its relationship to unemployment/full-time paid-employment. There are now two and a half million Canadians working at their own businesses, amounting to 16.2% of the total labour force or accounting for 17.8% of...

This paper outlines the structure of payroll taxes and documents evidence on the level, growth and role of each component over the last three decades for Canada and for each province. Levied by both the federal and provincial governments, payroll taxes in Canada include four major components: i)...

Ce document decrit la structure des cotisations sociales; il presente des preuves documentaires sur le niveau, la croissance et le role de chacune d'entre elles au cours des trois dernieres decennies, au Canada et dans chaque province. Les cotisations sociales sont prelevees par les...