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On the evolution of multiple jobholding in Canada

Kostyshyna, Olena; Lalé, Etienne - 2019

The number of workers who hold more than one job (a.k.a. multiple jobholders) has increased recently in Canada. While this seems to echo the view that non-standard work arrangements are becoming pervasive, the increase has in fact been trivial compared with the long-run rise of multiple...

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The intergenerational correlation of employment : is there a role for work culture?

Galassi, Gabriela; Koll, David; Mayr, Lukas - 2019

We document a substantial positive correlation of employment status between mothers and their children in the United States, linking data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 (NLSY79) and the NLSY79 Children and Young Adults. After controlling for ability, education and wealth, a...

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Labor market participation, unemployment and monetary policy

Campolmi, Alessia; Gnocchi, Stefano - 2014

We incorporate a participation decision in a standard New Keynesian model with matching frictions and show that treating the labor force as constant leads to incorrect evaluation of alternative policies. We also show that the presence of a participation margin mitigates the Shimer critique.

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Time variation in Okun's law : a Canada and US comparison

Beaton, Kimberly - 2010

unemployment rate to movements in output growth increasing recently over time in both Canada and the United States. -- Business …

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Uncovering the differences among displaced workers : evidence from Canadian job separation records

Birinci, Serdar; Park, Youngmin; Pugh, Thomas; See, Kurt - 2023 - Last updated: October 27, 2023

We revisit the measurement of the sources and consequences of job displacement using Canadian job separation records. To circumvent administrative data limitations, conventional approaches address selection by identifying displacement effects through mass-layoff separations, which are...

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Job applications and labour market flows

Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt; Wee, Shu Lin - 2021 - Last updated: October 12, 2021

generate the trends in unemployment flows. …

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How should unemployment insurance vary over the business cycle?

Birinci, Serdar; See, Kurt - 2020 - Last updated: November 6, 2020

We study optimal unemployment insurance (UI) policy over the business cycle, using a heterogeneous agent job …

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The trend unemployment rate in Canada : searching for the unobservable

Brouillette, Dany; Robitaille, Marie-Noëlle; … - 2019

In this paper, we assess several methods that have been used to measure the Canadian trend unemployment rate (TUR). We … extent to which methods provide explanations for changes in trend unemployment; (ii) whether revisions to unemployment gap … (UGAP, the difference between the actual unemployment rate and TUR) estimates are well behaved; (iii) if UGAPs provide …

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From he-cession to she-stimulus? : the labor market impact of fiscal policy across gender

Bonk, Alica Ida; Simon, Laure - 2021 - Last updated: September 9, 2021

Men, especially those that are young and less educated, typically bear the brunt of recessions because of the stronger cyclicality of their employment and wages relative to women's. We study the extent to which fiscal policy may offset or worsen these asymmetric effects across gender. Using...

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Local labor markets in Canada and the United States

Albouy, David; Chernoff, Alex; Lutz, Chandler; Warman, Casey - 2019

We examine local labor markets in the United States and Canada from 1990 to 2011 using comparable household and business data. Wage levels and inequality rise with city population in both countries, albeit less in Canada. Neither country saw wage levels converge despite contrasting migration...

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