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Heisz, Andrew; Baker, Michael; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

employer initiatedpermanent separations are the primary means of entry into unemployment in Canada, while labour force entry …

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Low-income Intensity During the 1990s: The Role of Economic Growth, Employment Earnings and Social Transfers

Picot, Garnett; Morissette, Rene; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income...

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Are Good Jobs Disappearing in Canada?

Johnson, Anick; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

Using hourly wage data from the Labour Force Survey as well as previous household surveys covering the 1981-2004 period …, these findings suggest that Canadian firms (existing or newly-born) have responded to growing competition within industries …

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Female Employment Rates and Labour Market Attachment in Rural Canada

Vera-Toscano, Esperanza; Weersink, Alfons; Phimister, Euan - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1993 to 1996. The results provide evidence that there are significant … differences between rural and urban labour markets. However, these do not appear to arise - as is often argued - from a lack of … role of women in rural areas. The results also suggest labour market segmentation within rural areas with clear differences …

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The Evolution of Job Stability in Canada: Trends and Comparisons to U.S. Results

Heisz, Andrew - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Using data from the 1976-1999 Canadian Labour Force Survey, we examine the stability of currently held jobs in a manner …

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Immigrant Source Country Educational Quality and Canadian Labour Market Outcomes

Sweetman, Arthur - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

, as measured by international test scores, and their success in the Canadian labour market. …

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Life After the High-tech Downturn: Permanent Layoffs and Earnings Losses of Displaced Workers

Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

The high-tech sector was a major driving force behind the Canadian economic recovery of the late 1990s. It is well known that the tide began to turn quite suddenly in 2001 when sector-wide employment and earnings halted this upward trend, despite continued gains in the rest of the economy. As...

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The Missing Link - Data on the Demand Side of Labour Markets

Osberg, Lars - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

Labour economists have developed elaborate theoretical models and conducted very advanced econometric analysis of the … decision making of households. But this emphasis on the supply side of the labour market has not been matched by any … corresponding degree of sophistication in empirical analysis of the demand side of the labour market. This has been due in part to …

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Offshoring and Employment in Canada: Some Basic Facts

Johnson, Anick; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

In this study, we assemble a wide variety of data sets in an attempt to produce a set of stylized facts regarding offshoring and the evolution of Canadian employment in recent years. Our main finding is that, in almost all of the data sets used, there is, so far, little evidence of a correlation...

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Alternative Measures of the Average Duration of Unemployment

Heisz, Andrew; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident...

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