Evidence of macroeconomic conditions impacting the earnings of men in Canada in a manner consistent with an implicit contracting framework is found using data from eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years 1981-1992. The estimates are similar to those found by Beaudry and DiNardo (1991)...

The earnings of immigrant and native-born men in Canada are compared using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years from 1981 to 1992. Evidence of a decline of the earnings of recent cohorts of immigration in Canada is not found.

The unemployment incidence of immigrant and non-immigrant men in Canada i scompared using eleven cross-sectional surveys spanning the years from 1982 to 1993.

Receipt of unemployment insurance by immigrant men and social assistance by immigrant families are analysed using thirteen surveys from Canada. Estimates from a cohort fixed effects model are found to be sensitive to the choice of survey years. This is due to the mis-specification of the fixed...

Receipt of unemployment insurance by immigrant men and social assistance by immigrant families are analysed using thirteen surveys from Canada. Estimates from a cohort fixed effects model are found to be sensitive to the choice of survey years. This is due to the mis-specification of the fixed...

This paper combines data from six Income distribution Surveys of the Australian Bureau of Statistics for the years 1982, 1986, 1990, 1994, 1995 and 1996 to analyze the unemployment incidence of recent male labour market entrants in Australia.

This paper examines the incidence of worker displacement in Australia between 1984 and 1996. Similar to recent international studies a particular focus is on whether job security declined between the 1980s and 1990s. It is found that a significant, but apparently temporary, increase in the...