This paper looks at annual changes in Canadian business sector employment from 2001 to 2009. This period encompasses an … expansionary phase (2001 to 2008), followed by a recession (2008/2009). Firm-level data are used to decompose yearly net employment … change into gross employment creation and destruction, which makes it possible to measure the size of total annual employment …

We study the short-term trajectories of employment, hours worked, and real wages of immigrants in Canada and the U … growth in employment and wages in the U.S. than in Canada. We further compare longitudinal and cross-sectional trajectories …