This paper deals with one fact of the unemployment rate gap between Canada and the United States that started in the early 1980s. We seek to analyse discrepancies in the search behaviour and environment of displaced workers which give rise to a higher observed average jobless duration for...

We exploit micro, longitudinal data in order to analyze the strong downward trend in seasonal employment that has been observed in Canada in recent decades. After controlling for compositional effects, we examine the extent to which the overall trend can be attributed to three potential factors:...

This paper evaluates some aspects of the 1996 Employment insurance (EI) reform package. One important modification was the small weeks initiative, which was a pilot program designed to encourage more working activity while qualifying for benefits. Another provision that was monitored closely is...

This paper uses LAD panel data to investigate how variability of workers' earnings and earnings instability for Canada changed between 1982­89 and 1990­97. Following the methodology of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994), we decompose the total variation of workers' earnings into permanent variation...

Our focus is on the event of receipt of low-income support benefits amongst Canadians who are 65 or older. The outcome that we model empirically is the incidence rate for Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits. We estimate multivariate models to investigate the effects of age, cohort,...