How Do the Labour Force Characteristics Encounter COVID-19 Economic Consequences—A Canadian Experience

Arsena Gjipali (), Valbona Karapici () and Nevila Baci
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Arsena Gjipali: Faculty of Economy, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB R3B 2E9, Canada
Valbona Karapici: Department of Economics, Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana, 1005 Tirana, Albania
Nevila Baci: Department of Informatics and Statistics, Faculty of Economy, University of Tirana, 1005 Tirana, Albania

Administrative Sciences, 2023, vol. 13, issue 9, 1-13

Abstract: This paper draws on a current international analysis of pandemic consequences in the labour market and on the way different segments have been impacted. The purpose is to provide a critical investigation of the facts and arguments regarding how and why the consequences of the same health epidemic are differently faced at an uneven socio-economic burden. The objectives are twofold: First, we aim to explore on an international level the inequality settings that COVID-19 has highlighted, focusing on the most affected economic pillars such as the labour market. Second, we provide an empirical analysis of the likelihood of Canadian labour force participants to be unemployed before and after COVID-19, as one of the measurable effects of the pandemic. We assess how the likelihood of the working-age population falling into the unemployment pool varies before, during and immediately after the pandemic restrictions ease, using Canadian Labour Force Survey microdata. The findings indicate that mainly immigrants and youth suffered the most, pointing out their probably higher participation in precarious jobs and calling for policy initiatives to fix the structural faults in the labour market.

Keywords: labour market; LFS; COVID-19; unemployment (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: L M M0 M1 M10 M11 M12 M14 M15 M16 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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