We use micro data from the Canadian Annual Work Patterns Survey for 1978, 1980 and 1982 to compare the distributions of the annual unemployment experiences of persons. Whether one groups the unemployed by age and sex or by major region, a smaller fraction of total weeks of unemployed is found in...

This paper examines what has happened to immigrant earnings in Canada and test two alternative hypotheses of Chiswick and Borjas re changing immigrant earnings differentials. The paper use a 1973 survey containing detailed information on immigrant status, family background, and a direct measure...

This paper examines the conceptual issues involved in measuring duration of completed spells of unemployment from Gross Flows. We find that such measures can avoid the "interruption" bias of Labour Force stock data, but that they cannot correct the oversampling of long spells. We also conclude...

Dans cette etude, on utilise les donnees longitudinales extraites des dossiers fiscaux des deux dernieres decennies et l'analyse par cohortes synthetiques pour examiner les tendances des revenus.

Le present document porte sur la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de 1982 a 1997 et sur l'evolution de cette variabilite en fonction du taux de chomage et de la croissance du produit interieur brut (PIB) reel durant cette periode. En utilisant un grand panel de donnees fiscales,...