La presente etude porte sur la maniere dont le risque de perte d'emploi et les pertes de revenu a court terme des travailleurs mis a pied ont evolue entre la fin des annees 1970 et le milieu des annees 2000.

This study examines how the risk of job loss and the short-term earnings losses of laid-off workers evolved between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s.

L'analyse porte sur l'evolution de la nature du travail autonome en comparant les taux de transition du marche du travail chez les hommes (entre le non-emploi, l'emploi remunere, le travail autonome pour compte propre et le travail autonome avec aide remuneree) dans deux echantillons de...

This paper examines how the nature of self-employment may have changed, by comparing the labour market transition rates for males (between non-employment, paid employment, own-account self-employment, and self-employment with paid help) in two panels of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics...

Au cours des trois dernieres decennies, le Canada a connu trois recessions : une premiere qui a commence au debut des annees 1980; une deuxieme, au debut des annees 1990; et la plus recente, qui a entraine des baisses de l'emploi a partir d'octobre 2008. Pour chacune de ces recessions, la presente etude...

Over the last three decades, Canada has experienced three recessions: one that started during the early 1980s; a second that began during the early 1990s; and the most recent one, which led to employment declines starting in October 2008. For each recession, this study: a) examines which workers...

La presente etude s?appuie sur des donnees provenant de la base de donnees du Programme d?analyse longitudinale de l?emploi de Statistique Canada pour examiner la distribution des taux de croissance de l?emploi au Canada de 2000 a 2009, en se concentrant surtout sur les entreprises situees dans...

This paper examines the long-term labour market premiums associated with completing a college certificate and a bachelor's degree, compared to completing a high school diploma. Several labour market outcomes of individuals are examined with longitudinal data over a 20-year period spanning their...

In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...

This study examines which factors underlie the narrowing of wage differences seen between young bachelor?s degree holders and high school graduates from the 2000-to-2002 period to the 2010-to-2012 period and the widening of differences in full-time paid employment rates between these two...