, with focus on the difference in unemployment rates between the two countries over the period 1980-1993. Reduction in the incidence of unemployment in the U.S.; Role that Canada's UI program has played in the emergence of the gap; Reference made to the post-war period.Baker...
Employment in Canada increased significantly in August largely as a result of gains in part-time work, Statistics Canada is reporting. Five Canadian provinces saw employment gains while the rest of the country held steady, according to the StatsCan Labour Force Survey, and three industrial sectors...
The sources of regional variation in Canadian self-employment 355 In general, the findings suggest that two categories of variables have a major influence on self-employment rates in Canada: regional economic vitality and local economic structure. Variables like population growth and in-migration, ...
In particular, losses in wholesale and retail trade were notable, as the industry shed an additional 22,000 jobs in the month of October—resulting in the lowest industry-wide employment rates since December 2022. Similarly, finance, insurance, real estate, rental, an...
Training and skill development amongst the self-employed have become important issues as self-employment has grown in Canada. Past surveys indicate lower rates of formal training for the self-employed than for paid employees. However, there is great diversity amongst this population and little is kn...
S elf-employment has accounted for the majority of net employment growth in Canada in the 1990s, but for almost none in the United States (Manser and Picot, 1997). This marks a change from the 1980s, when it played a similar role in both countries. Not surprisingly, considerable attention...
This paper provides, for the first time, an overview of immigrant business ownership and the associated employment in Canada. The focus is on ownership of private incorporated firms and on the unincorporated self-employed. Immigrants are entrepreneurial. While immigrant business ownership rates are low...
The US Unemployment Rate measures the percentage of total employees in the United States that are a part of the labor force, but are without a job. It is one of the most widely followed indicators of the health of the US labor market and the US economy as a whole. Historically, the US...
The California Unemployment Rate measures the total number of employees in California that are a part of the labor force, but are without a job. Unemployment rates can be a good gauge for how the economy is performing in a particular region. Historically, the unemployment rate in California rea...
Employment rates grew at a faster pace than what Statistics Canada observed in 2018. The growth, which was spread across the first three quarters of the year, was mostly the result of gains in full-time work with 283,000 more workers. Canada saw a record low unemployment ...