Labour Market Adjustment Issues in Canada
Author: Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: Kingston, Ont., Canada : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Pradeep Kumar
Publisher: Kingston, Ont., Canada : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: William Craig Riddell
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Published: 1986
Total Pages: 254
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Essays on labour market adjustment to structural change and technological change in Canada - examines the role of education and training in view of changing skill requirements; considers the effects on employment and wages; comments on the role of labour legislation, trade unions and collective bargaining in dealing with layoffs, redundancy and plant shutdown. References, statistical tables.
Author: Canada. Human Resources Development Canada. Applied Research Branch
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 24
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Canadian Labour Market and Productivity Centre
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Published: 1994
Total Pages: 41
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Melanie Courchene
Publisher: Kingston, Ont. : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 76
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Graham Glenday
Publisher: Labour Market Development Task Force
Published: 1981
Total Pages: 86
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: W. G. Picot
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Published: 1987
Total Pages: 60
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The paper assesses the labour market adjustment experiences of Canadian workers who were permanently laid off between 1981 and 1984. Such lay-offs could be due to structural or cyclical causes. Data from a special survey are used to answer a number of questions. What types of workers were most likely to experience job loss and in which industries or occupations did they work? What happened to these workers when their jobs were abolished? Did they adjust relatively quickly and successfully, finding new jobs in a short time at the same income level? Or did a significant number spend long periods seeking new jobs and undergo large pay cuts? How many turned to retraining or relocation in an attempt to find a new job? Were there major movements among industrial sectors in the process (say from manufacturing to services), and how did workers who made such a transition fare? Circumstances varied tremendously from one worker to another. Nearly one-quarter of the workers who found new jobs did so within three weeks, while 10% took more than one year. Of those finding new jobs, 55% found jobs paying higher wages, 45% took pay cuts in their new jobs. On the whole, however, these permanently laid off workers fared poorly compared to the rest of the labour force. Their unemployment rate in January, 1986 (the time of the survey) was 25%, more than double the national average. Even among workers with considerable experience in the lost job (3 years or more), the unemployment rate was 24%.
Author: Canada. Advisory Council on Adjustment
Publisher: The Council
Published: 1989
Total Pages: 456
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →To assist the government in assuring that Canadians take full advantage of the new opportunities arising from the Canada-United States Free Trade Agreement.
Author: Mr.Eswar Prasad
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 25
ISBN-13: 1451841728
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This paper provides a quantitative assessment of the relative importance of different labor market adjustment mechanisms in Canada and the United States and also examines the effects of the unemployment insurance (UI) system on labor market adjustment. At the aggregate level, employment growth shocks result in similar unemployment rate responses but smaller wage responses in Canada relative to the United States. Although overall UI generosity has increased aggregate unemployment persistence in Canada, the endogenous component of UI has affected unemployment persistence only marginally. The lower degree of aggregate real wage flexibility in Canada has not been an important determinant of unemployment persistence.