unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States. -- Business …This article investigates the stability of Okun's law for Canada and the United States using a time varying parameter …

The recent financial crisis and subsequent recession have spurred great interest in the sources of unemployment … across sectorspecific labour markets in the economy. In Canada, such differences are substantial. From 1991 to 2010 … the model using Canadian data from 1991 to 2010. I find that, in the long run, unemployment fluctuations are mainly driven …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … area countries. Within Canada, the results indicate that labor markets in Ontario and provinces further west are more …

In this paper, we assess several methods that have been used to measure the Canadian trend unemployment rate (TUR). We … extent to which methods provide explanations for changes in trend unemployment; (ii) whether revisions to unemployment gap … (UGAP, the difference between the actual unemployment rate and TUR) estimates are well behaved; (iii) if UGAPs provide …

using macroeconomic data on employment, unemployment, participation, and (for Canada) migration and real wages. We find that … area countries. Within Canada, the results indicate that labor markets in Ontario and provinces further west are more …

the pandemic. We assess how the likelihood of the working-age population falling into the unemployment pool varies before …

downward rigidity, and magnifying the response of unemployment to negative shocks. We also consider layoffs and show that for a …