We study how optimal unemployment insurance (UI) benefits vary over the business cycle by estimating how the moral hazard cost and the consumption smoothing benefit of UI vary with the unemployment rate. We find that the moral hazard cost is procyclical, greater when the unemployment rate is...

This paper studies the role of employer behavior in generating “negative duration dependence†– the adverse effect of a longer unemployment spell – by sending fictitious resumes to real job postings in 100 U.S. cities. Our results indicate that the likelihood of receiving...

Examples of educational mismatch and overqualifcation in the labour market can often be found in the same office building – the clerical worker with a bachelor’s degree reporting to a manager with a high school education – as an example. Some have argued that mismatch in...

How does time off from work affect an individual’s job prospects? A study by CLSRN affiliates Kory Kroft (University of Toronto), Fabian Lange (McGill University) and Matthew J. Notowidigdo (University of Chicago) entitled “Duration Dependence and Labor Market Conditions: Theory and...

Le fait de ne parler ni anglais ni français constitue souvent un obstacle important pour un emploi et un revenu rémunérateurs au Canada et, selon une étude intitulée « Effets de la proximité linguistique sur l’assimilation professionnelle des immigrants hommes » (Rapport de...

This paper contributes to the analysis of the integration of immigrants in the Canadian labour market by focusing in two relatively new dimensions. We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a novel measure of linguistic proximity of the...

En Amérique du Nord, les étudiants dont les parents ont émigré obtiennent en général un meilleur niveau d’études que ceux dont les parents sont nés au Canada. En Europe, on constate l’inverse. Au Canada, les étudiants de parents immigrants (de 1re ou de 2e génération) suivent des...

There are two competing views on how immigration would affect local labor markets. When immigrants offer skills similar to those of native-born workers, they may compete directly with them, and this competition may lead to lower economic returns for native-born workers. This view can be called...

Au Canada, environ 20 % des emplois sont réglementés. En moyenne, ces emplois sont mieux rémunérés car ils exigent en général un meilleur niveau d’éducation ou de formation et la réglementation contrôlant l’accès à ces emplois tend à en restreindre l’admission. La politique...

There is growing belief in many developed countries, including Canada, that the large influx of the foreign-born population increases crime. Despite the heated public discussion, the immigrant-crime relationship is understudied in the literature. This paper identifies the causal linkages between...