Title: A Comparative Analysis of Unemployment in Canada and the United States
Abstract: Throughout the late 1980s unemployment rates remained 2-3 percentage points higher Canada than the U.S. We use individual microdata from the U.S. Current Population Survey and the Canadian Survey of Consumer Finances to study the emerging unemployment gap between the two countries. For women, we find that the relative rise Canadian unemployment occurred with relative increases per capita weeks of work. The unemployment gap for Canadian women was driven by a rise the probability that nonworkers are classified as unemployed as opposed to out of the labor force. For men, the increase unemployment was accompanied by a relative decrease Canadian employment rates, and an increase the probability that men with no weeks of work are classified as in the labor force. A comparison of annual work patterns and income recipiency the two countries suggests that Canadians of both sexes have increasingly adjusted their labor supply to the parameters of the Canadian Unemployment Insurance system.(This abstract was borrowed from another version of this item.)
Publication Year: 1993
Publication Date: 1993-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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