Seasonal Employment in Canada
Its Decline and its Persistence
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11966780 |
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| Authors | David Gray (0000-0003-3812-0350, corresponding author), David M Gray (Department of EconomicsUniversity of Ottawa), James Ted Mcdonald |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 36 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 1-27 |
| Publication date | 2010-03-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Canadian Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0317-0861 • E-ISSN: 1911-9917 |
| Publisher | University of Toronto Press Inc. (UTPress) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.3138/cpp.36.1.1 |
| OpenAlex | W4253066680 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 5 |
We exploit micro, longitudinal data in order to analyze the strong downward trend in seasonal employment that has been observed in Canada in recent decades. After controlling for compositional effects, we examine the extent to which the overall trend can be attributed to three potential factors: the reforms that were implemented to the unemployment insurance/employment insurance (UI/EI) program in the mid-1990s, changes in production and employment patterns within industries, and changes in the incidence of seasonal employment among less-educated workers. We also examine a dynamic aspect of seasonal unemployment, namely the degree of persistence of seasonal work
Biology · Demographic economics · Economic growth · Economics · Exploit · Geography · Labour economics · Longitudinal data · Macroeconomics · Persistence (discontinuity · Production (economics · Seasonality · Sociology · Unemployment · Work (physics · Demography · Employment and Welfare Studies · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth · Labor market dynamics and wage inequality · Ecology
| Highly cited | No |
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