Around the world, traditional forms of business and employment are being disrupted by new global corporations based on internet apps and platforms. These often provide precarious “Gig Economy” work. In some cases, these are the only option for people who no longer have access to traditional...

This paper studies whether migration policy, besides managing a country's population size, is a suitable tool to influence immigrants' labour market outcomes. To do so, it uses a migration policy change that occurred in Australia in the late 1990s and data collected by the Longitudinal Survey of...

Since March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic has significantly disrupted Canada’s labour market. Following the mandated closures of schools, daycares and “non-essential” businesses in every province, a large and immediate unemployment shock was documented across the country. While signs of...