This paper starts from the definition that "structural unemployment occurs when workers are unable to fill available jobs because they lack the skills, do not live where jobs are available, or are unwilling to work at the wage rate offered in the market." This implies that the number of...

This paper argues that interindustry labor mobility and interregional migration are simultaneously determined processes. It estimates a bivariate probit model of migration and mobility and concludes that the interindustry mobility of labor is dominated by the availability of employment hours and...

This paper starts from the definition that "structural unemployment occurs when workers are unable to fill available jobs because they lack the skills, do not live where jobs are available, or are unwilling to work at the wage rate offered in the market." This implies that the number of...

Le present document porte sur les tendances recentes concernant l'assurance-emploi (auparavant l'assurance-chomage). On y presente egalement l'evolution historique du regime d'assurance-emploi. En voici les principales conclusions. Le regime d'assurance-emploi a connu d'importants deficits...

Ce document examine la mobilite interprovinciale de la main-d'oeuvre des immigrants comparativement a celle des Canadiens de naissance. Les Canadiens nes a l'etranger different enormement de leurs homologues nes au pays. La population nee a l'etranger est geographiquement concentree dans...

Le present document met en evidence les faits recents survenus dans le secteur de l'emploi autonome au Canada et il analyse les rapports de l'emploi autonome avec le chomage et l'emploi a plein temps remunere. Il y a maintenant deux millions et demi de Canadiens qui exploitent leur propre...