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Canadian labour market dynamics during COVID-19
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2021
stock and flow data to understand key developments. We find dramatic changes in employment, unemployment and labour market …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012591149
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Does immigration help alleviate economy-wide labour shortages?
Fortin, Pierre - 2024
curve, which draws the classical inverse relation between the job vacancy rate and the unemployment rate, before, during …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014532497
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Unemployment, marginal attachment and labor force participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, William Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two … complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the … marginally attached displaying behavior lying between unemployment and non-attachment. The three non-employment states are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012064016
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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020
"recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012232079
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The effects of cancer in the English labour market
Candon, David - 2014
The continued rise in overall cancer survival rates has ignited a field of research which examines the effect that cancer has on survivors' employment. Previous estimates of the effect of cancer on labour market outcomes, using U.S. data, show a significant reduction in employment and hours of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010348323
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Are cancer survivors who are eligible for social security more likely to retire than healthy workers? : evidence from difference-in-differences
Candon, David - 2015
Despite the fact that there are over a million new cancer cases detected in the U.S. every year, none of retirement-health literature focuses specifically on the effect that cancer has on retirement. Social Security may offer a pathway to retirement for eligible workers but the separate effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483533
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The effect of cancer on the employment of older males : attenuating selection bias using a high risk sample
Candon, David - 2015
Estimating the unbiased effect of health shocks on employment is an important topic in both health and labour economics. This is particularly relevant to cancer, where improvements in screening and treatments have led to increases in survival for nearly all types of cancer. In order to address...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010496185
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The impact of terrorism on well-being : evidence from the Boston Marathon Bombing
Clark, Andrew E.; Stancanelli, Elena G. F.; Doyle, Orla - 2017
, we find a sharp reduction in well-being, equivalent to a two percentage point rise in annual unemployment. The effect is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011714846
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Informal employment in Poland : an empirical spatial analysis
Nikulin, Dagmara; Beręsewicz, Maciej - 2018
The main goal of our article is to bridge the gap in the regional analysis of informal employment in Poland and in particular to indicate the propensity for informal work in the working age population, to test if informal activities are typical for marginalized people (less educated, unemployed,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802381
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Female labor force participation and economic growth : re-examination of u-shaped curve
Lechman, Ewa - 2014
The paper contributes by providing new insights into the relationship between female labor force and economic growth in 162 countries over the period 1990-2012. We anticipate uncovering U-shaped impact of economic growth on female labor force. To examine the previous we deploy longitudinal data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011802121