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Initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Canadian labour market

Lemieux, Thomas; Milligan, Kevin; Schirle, Tammy; … - 2020

In this study we review the initial impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on the Canadian labour market. We focus on changes in employment and aggregate hours worked between February 2020 and April 2020, while accounting for normal monthly changes in these indicators. We find that COVID-19 induced a...

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Labour market flows and worker trajectories in Canada during COVID-19

Brochu, Pierre; Créchet, Jonathan; Deng, Zechuan - 2020

Labour Market Flows and Worker Trajectories in Canada during COVID-1We use the confidential-use files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to study the employment dynamics in Canada from the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic through to mid-summer. Using the longitudinal dimension of this dataset,...

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Do financial conditions play a role in university dropout? : new evidence from administrative data

Contini, Dalit; Zotti, Roberto - 2021

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The relative labour market performance of former international students : evidence from the Canadian National Graduates Survey

Chen, Zong Jia; Skuterud, Mikal - 2017

Canada is increasingly looking to international students as a source of postsecondary tuition revenues and new … immigrants. By 2014, international students accounted for 10% of graduates from Canadian postsecondary institutions, up from 3 … former international students (FISs) entering the Canadian labour market during the first decade of the 2000s to their …

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The potential of Canada's international student strategy : evidence from the "MIT of the north"

Blit, Joel; Skuterud, Mikal; Zhang, Ruiwen - 2024

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Canadian labour market dynamics during COVID-19

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2021

The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...

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Survey non-response in Covid-19 times: the case of the labour force survey

Brochu, Pierre; Créchet, Jonathan - 2021

With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic, labour-force survey non-response rates have surged in many countries. We show that in the case of Canada, the bulk of this increase can be explained by the suspension of in-person interviews following the adoption of telework in Federal agencies,...

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Labor markets in crisis: the causal impact of Canada's COVD19 economic shutdown on hours worked for workers across the earnings distribution

Koebel, Kourtney; Pohler, Dionne - 2020

We use Statistics Canada's Labour Force Survey to explore the labor market impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19 …

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Waiting for recovery: the Canadian labour market in June 2020

Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, William Craig - 2020

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or "recall") unemployment, those "employed but absent from work" for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident....

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Automation and reallocation : the lasting legacy of COVID-19 in Canada

Blit, Joel - 2020

Recent evidence suggests that recessions play a crucial role in promoting automation and the reallocation of productive resources. Consistent with this, I show that in the three previous Canadian recessions, routine jobs were disproportionately lost. COVID-19 is likely to have a similar impact,...

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