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The labor market in Canada, 2000-2016 : a strong resource boom that benefited Canada’s economy and labor market was followed by a painful adjustment
Riddell, William Craig - 2018
During the 2000–2016 period, Canada’s economy and labor market performed well. An important element in this success was the strong resource boom that lasted from the late 1990s to 2014. Since that time the economy and labor market have been undergoing a painful adjustment, a process that is...
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The labor market in Canada : 2000-2021 : Covid-19 ended 20 years of stability and good labor market performance, aided in part by a strong resource boom
Riddell, William Craig - 2022
unemployment and non-participation. Despite the severity of the Covid-19 shock, by December 2021 most key measures of labor market …
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How should job displacement wage losses be insured? : wage losses upon re-employment can seriously harm long-tenured displaced workers if they are not properly insured
Parsons, Donald O. - 2018
Job displacement represents a serious earnings risk to long-tenured workers through lower re-employment wages, and these losses may persist for many years. Moreover, this risk is often poorly insured, although not for a lack of policy interest. To reduce this risk, most countries mandate...
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Compensating displaced workers : uncoordinated unemployment insurance and severance pay do a poor job of insuring against losses resulting from job displacement
Parsons, Donald O. - 2018
Job displacement poses a serious earnings threat to long-tenured workers through unemployment spells and lower re …-employment wages. The prevailing method of insuring job displacement losses involves an uncoordinated combination of unemployment … to the administrative complexity of unemployment insurance systems. If both options are operational, systematic …
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