A Panel Data Analysis of the US-Canadian Nonemployment Rate Gap among Young, Low Skilled Males

Audra Bowlus ()

Canadian Public Policy, 1998, vol. 24, issue s1, 192-209

Abstract: Evidence from the U.S. National Longitudinal Survey of Youth and the Canadian Labour Market Activity Survey shows differences in both incidence and duration give rise to the mid-1980 US-Canadian nonemployment rate gap of young, low skilled males. Canadians are more likely to experience a firm-initiated job separation, to have been a seasonal or temporary job, to experience transition to nonemployment rather than another job, and take-up Unemployment Insurance (UI) than Americans. Overall, a pattern emerges of more intermittent employment in Canada with intervening spells of UI-sponsored nonemployment.

Date: 1998
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