While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent years. There is a large turnover in the youth labour force, and the employment of experience of those between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five has been marked by seasonal variations. This study discusses the factors which contribute to the high youth unemployment rate, examines the historical record of labout force participation, and provides some projections into the future.
While the unemployment rate for young people has always tended to be well above the average, this tendency has been greatly accentuated in recent y...
Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being.
The empirical results illustrate how incomes vary significantly with age according to labour market attachment and experience, educational attainment...
Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book...
This volume demonstrates the benefits of evaluating the economic merits of policy alternatives, and attempts to determine whether existing policies waste resources or lead to undesirable income transfers among different groups in the population.
This volume demonstrates the benefits of evaluating the economic merits of policy alternatives, and attempts to determine whether existing policies wa...
