On presume souvent que les changements sur le marche du travail tels qu'un accroissement de l'incidence du travail a temps partiel ou saisonnier, du cumul de plusieurs emplois ou du travail independant sont regis par des variations de la demande, c'est-a-dire qu'ils resultent d'un manque de...

Dans cet article, on fait etat de nouvelles donnees sur les relations entre l'acces aux etudes postsecondaires et les antecedents familiaux. A cette fin, on utilise les donnees tirees de l'Enquete aupres des sortants (EAS) et celles de l'Enquete aupres des jeunes en transition (EJET) pour...

Changes in the labour market such as an increase in the incidence of part-time, part-year work, multiple job holding and self-employment have often been conjectured as demand-driven shifts - that is, that they have resulted from a lack of more traditional job opportunities rather than in...

This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background. It uses the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.

This paper examines how the Workers' Compensation (WC) and Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs interact to influence the duration of claims due to workplace accidents. We use longitudinal WC administrative micro-data on more than 30,000 workers in the Canadian construction industry for the...

In spite of much anecdotal evidence and some case studies regarding the size and characteristics of the inter-provincial workforce in Alberta, comprehensive information remains scarce. This is due in part to the many challenges faced in trying to enumerate a mobile population. Drawing on...

En depit des nombreuses donnees anecdotiques et de certaines etudes de cas au sujet de la taille et des caracteristiques de la main-d'oeuvre interprovinciale en Alberta, les renseignements detailles demeurent limites. Cette situation est attribuable en partie aux nombreuses difficultes associees...

La presente etude utilise les donnees de l'Enquete nationale aupres des apprentis (ENA) de 2007 pour comparer les differences entre les salaires horaires des apprentis qui achevent leur programme d'apprentissage et ceux des apprentis qui l'abandonnent. L'objectif principal est d'estimer l'ordre...

This study uses the 2007 National Apprenticeship Survey (NAS) to compare hourly wage differences observed between apprentices who complete their programs and apprentices who discontinue their programs. The primary objective is to estimate the magnitude of the wage difference between these groups...

This paper examines how yhe Workers' Compensation (WC) and the Unemployment Insurance (UI) programs interact to influence the duration of claims due to workplace accidents. We use longitudinal WC administrative micro-data on more than 30,000 workers in the Quebec construction industry for the...