Le present document i) examine l'envergure et la cyclicite du flux de creation et de disparition des emplois autonomes; ii) explore les transitions liees a ces mouvements; iii) evalue l'incidence de caracteristiques individuelles et de l'experience du marche du travail ainsi que de conditions...

This paper highlights recent developments in self-employment in Canada and explores its relationship to unemployment/full-time paid-employment. There are now two and a half million Canadians working at their own businesses, amounting to 16.2% of the total labour force or accounting for 17.8% of...

This paper outlines the structure of payroll taxes and documents evidence on the level, growth and role of each component over the last three decades for Canada and for each province. Levied by both the federal and provincial governments, payroll taxes in Canada include four major components: i)...

This paper investigates the inter-provincial labour mobility behaviour of immigrants relative to that of native-born Canadians. Foreign-born Canadians differ a great deal from their domestically-born counterparts. The foreign-born population is geographically concentrated in a few provinces and...

Le present document, le prolongement d'un travail anterieur, constitue une mise a jour de la structure et des parametres d'orientation du regime canadien d'imposition de charges sociales. A partir d'un ensemble de donnees disponibles depuis peu, il fait aussi rapport des tendances sur le plan du...

Ce document decrit la structure des cotisations sociales; il presente des preuves documentaires sur le niveau, la croissance et le role de chacune d'entre elles au cours des trois dernieres decennies, au Canada et dans chaque province. Les cotisations sociales sont prelevees par les...

This paper i) documents the extent and cyclicality of self-employment entry and exit flows; ii) explores transitions to and from self-employment; and iii) investigates the influence of individual characteristics and labour market experience as well as macroeconomic conditions on the probability...

Ce document examine la mobilite interprovinciale de la main-d'oeuvre des immigrants comparativement a celle des Canadiens de naissance. Les Canadiens nes a l'etranger different enormement de leurs homologues nes au pays. La population nee a l'etranger est geographiquement concentree dans...

Le present document met en evidence les faits recents survenus dans le secteur de l'emploi autonome au Canada et il analyse les rapports de l'emploi autonome avec le chomage et l'emploi a plein temps remunere. Il y a maintenant deux millions et demi de Canadiens qui exploitent leur propre...

This paper extends earlier work by updating the structure and policy parameters of payroll taxes in Canada. Drawing from a newly available dataset, it also reports trends on the level, growth and role of each component of these taxes in recent years. Finally, it compares Canadian payroll taxes...