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Summary Of: Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994

Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994. At the end of the 1980s, Canada and the United States reached an agreement to phase out import tariffs over a 10-year period beginning January 1st, 1989. This...

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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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Tariff Reduction and Employment in Canadian Manufacturing, 1988-1994

Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

This paper uses firm-level data from the T2/LEAP to investigate whether the link between tariff changes and employment differed across firms with various productivity and leverage characteristics over the period 1988 to 1994. The results suggest that the combined effect of domestic and U.S....

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The Impact of International Trade on the Wages of Canadians

Zakhilwal, Omar - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. Particular attention is paid to the role of international trade in determining the wage …

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Changes in the Diversification of Canadian Manufacturing Firms and Plants (1973-1997): A Move to Specialization

Beckstead, Desmond; Caves, Richard; Baldwin, John R. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

This paper studies changes in diversification of firms and plants since the early 1970s in the Canadian manufacturing sector. It finds that there has been a general increase in specialization of both firms and plants. Firms have been continuously reducing the span of industries in which they...

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An Assessment of EI and SA Reporting in SLID

Kapsalis, Costa - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001

Assistance (SA) benefits in the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID): (a) under-reporting of the monthly number of …, the SA could reflect a real phenomenon. After all, SA starts and terminations are affected by labour market conditions, in …

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Summary Of: Work Hours Instability in Canada

Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Heisz, Andrew - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

cross-sectional data may be incomplete. Using longitudinal data from the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, we …

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Rising Self-employment in the Midst of High Unemployment: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Developments in Canada

Lin, Zhengxi; Picot, Garnett; Yates, Janice - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

total labour force or accounting for 17.8% of total employment. In the first eight years of the 1990s, self-employment on … self-employment as the main labour market activity averaged nearly half a million per year between 1982 and 1994, amounting …

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Are Canadians More Likely to Lose Their Jobs in the 1990s?

Picot, Garnett; Zhengxi, Lin - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

further show that the Canadian labour market adjusts to structural changes more through depressed hirings than increased …

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Wage Progression of Less Skilled Workers in Canada: Evidence from the SLID (1993-1998)

Zhang, Xuelin - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

workers to participate in the labour market and accumulate work experience. The other view stresses that less skilled workers … model of wage growth for less skilled workers is estimated using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID … return to job tenure is also found to be greater than the return to total labour market experience for less skilled workers …

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