Youth Unemployment in Canada, 1976-1998

Morley Gunderson (), Andrew Sharpe and Steven Wald

Canadian Public Policy, 2000, vol. 26, issue s1, pages 85-100

Abstract: Analysis of youth unemployment indicates: (i) The ratio of youth-adult rates exhibits a u-shaped pattern, declining markedly from 1976 to 1983, levelling off from 1984 to 1990, but rising sharply thereafter, mainly for teenagers; (ii) the pattern results from the combination of a relative improvement among non-students in the late 1970s and 1980s, and a relative deterioration for full-time students seeking part-time work over the 1990s. (iii) If it were not for the declining youth cohort size, the ratio of youth to adult unemployment would have been substantially higher than its already high ratio in the 1990s. (iv) Recessions tend to worsen the unemployment of youths relative to adults for non-student males while improving it for students; and (v) the youth labour market is not homogeneous, but varies considerably between males and females, teenagers and young adults, and students and non-students.

Date: 2000
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