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-tenure displaced workers experience earnings losses due to reduced income during unemployment following displacement. However, unlike … other job losers, many long-tenure displaced workers become re-employed at significantly lower wages. EI does not take into … indicates that job losers with 5 or more years of job tenure constitute about 5% of unemployment and 15-20% of permanent job …
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Change is an enduring feature of the economy and the labour market, even in normal times. The importance of adjusting to change, and of policies that promote adjustment, has been a recurring theme throughout David Dodge’s distinguished career. This paper deals with “displaced...
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Des exemples d’inégalité en éducation et de surqualification sur le marché du travail peuvent souvent se produire dans le même bâtiment administratif, comme par exemple un employé de bureau ayant un diplôme d’études supérieures et qui doit rendre compte à un supérieur n’ayant...
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stylized fact about the cyclicality of skill requirements (tasks) for newly formed jobs. Relating local unemployment rates in … job search models with heterogeneous workers and vacancies. In this framework, firms increase the share manual job … vacancies during downturns because they are less costly to post and fill. The second contribution is to show that the …
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partially due to relative changes in the type of jobs available at these times. Unemployment Insurance (UI) helps individuals … transition through difficult economic situations such as periods of unemployment, and underemployment. While UI provides … insurance to households by helping them “smooth consumption†during a period of unemployment, studies have found evidence of …
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rental vacancy rate, and had no effect on the unemployment rate. …
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This paper studies the incidence and duration of unemployment in Canada at an aggregate and a number of disaggregated … most of the changes in steady state unemployment rates during the study period can be attributed to changes in incidence …
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Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an “added worker effect†for the earnings of teenagers. However, we find that among...
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In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50. This is potentially complicated by the self-selection of older individuals out of the labour force and into activities such as retirement, preventing observation of their...
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In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE oered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...
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