 Youth Unemployment in Canada, 1976-1998Morley Gunderson (), Andrew Sharpe and Steven Wald Canadian Public Policy, 2000, vol. 26, issue s1, 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 Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cpp:issued:v:26:y:2000:i:s1:p:85-100 Ordering information: This journal article can be ordered from Access Statistics for this article Canadian Public Policy is currently edited by Prof. Mike Veall More articles in Canadian Public Policy from University of Toronto Press University of Toronto Press Journals Division 5201 Dufferin Street Toronto, Ontario, Canada M3H 5T8. |
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