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A note on anticipating employment trends in manufacturing

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Educators are concerned that student employment may be associated with an increased likelihood of dropping out of high school before a certificate or diploma is earned. This article analyses the effects of work during the school year on the risk of dropping out.

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This study examines how Canadian productivity is measured and what factors affect it. In addition, trends in productivity over the last 30 years are discussed.

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An up-to-date look at RRSP contributions and benefits.

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A look at some of the basic retirement planning done by working Canadians aged 45 to 64 and at the financial resources that will enable them to enjoy retirement.

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This article outlines trends since the mid-1970s in the labour market activity of female lone parents. Comparisons are made with wives in two-parent families.

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This article assesses the occurrence of non-standard work schedules by selected characteristics of shift work schedules by selected characteristics of shift workers and their main reasons for working shift.

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This study analyses growth in the number of women teaching full time at Canada's universities, from 1960 onwards.

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By the end of 1992, a recovery appeared to be increasing its hold on the Canadian economy. A firming of employment and a pick-up in real wages helped to fuel higher household spending in the second half of the year. However, these positive developments were not enough to prevent the annual average unemployment rate from rising to a nine-year high of 11.3%

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The characteristics of people who moved in 1987 to look for work, start a new job or take a transfer are profiled.

Description: This table contains 29 series, with data starting from 1953 (not all combinations necessarily have data for all years). This table contains data described by the following dimensions (Not all combinations are available): Geography (1 item: Canada), Assets and liabilities (29 items: Total assets; Total, Government of Canada, direct and guaranteed securities; Government of Canada, Treasury Bills; Total, Government of Canada, bonds; ...).

Description: Historical (real-time) releases of merchandise imports and exports with data for years 1988 - current.

Description: Industrial chemical and synthetic resins annual production, in tonnes.

Description: Chemicals and synthetic resins products annual production, data in tonnes.

Description: Canadian passenger bus and urban transit industries, total revenue and total passenger trips by Urban transit agency, selected Canadian Urban transit agencies, monthly.

Description: The investment in residential and non-residential building construction represents the spending value of building construction by households, enterprises and governments for buildings.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the household sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the private non-financial corporations sector, by category.

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Monthly credit aggregates for the assets of the financial corporation sector, by category.

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Selected credit estimates including loans and debt securities and other financial instruments by creditor (lender) and debtor (borrower) sectors, seasonally adjusted and non-seasonally adjusted.

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As more and more wives join the work force, the dual-earner family has become the norm and a wife who earns more than her husband is no longer a rarity: in 1987, it happened in just under one of five dual-earner families. This study profiles these wives and their husbands by work patterns and earnings, and looks at life-cycle variations.

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Calculating an unemployment rate based on unutilized hours offers a more complete measure of unemployment. It also results in a higher rate of unemployment. This study provides a look at what else this measure can tell us.

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One in twelve paid workers in 1986 earned the minimum wage or less. A portrait of low-wage earners and a brief look at the origins of minimum wage legislation and differences by jurisdiction.

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In the average week of 1988, over a half a million people worked at two or more jobs. This study shows that some groups of workers - the young, the self-employed - are especially disposed to moonlighting. Family circumstances, hours of work and earnings between single and multiple jobholders are examined.

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There were nearly 400,000 disabled workers in Canada in 1986 - less than a third of working age Canadians with a disability. What are the characteristics of disabled workers? This study compares disabled workers with the non-disabled in the work force and with disabled persons outside of the work force.

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Immigrant workers are over-represented in "product fabricating" occupations, which include, for example, garment workers and mechanics. This profile of immigrants in fabricating jobs looks at age, education, period of immigration and knowledge of English or French. It also compared the employment income of immigrant and non-immigrant workers in product fabricating occupations.

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Unemployment estimates from the Labour Force Survey, source of the official unemployment rate, are quite different from counts of the number of Unemployment Insurance beneficiaries. This piece reviews the conceptual differences between the two data sources and quantifies many of the factors that create the discrepancies.

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The Canadian motor vehicle industry has faced a number of challenges since the late 1970s, including the oil price shock and a major recession. This article traces employment, earnings and output changes over the turbulent 1978-1986 period and provides a portrait of the industry in 1986. Comparisons are drawn with the industry's performance in the United States.

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Employment growth moderated considerably this year, and shifted its focus westward: more than half the growth occurred in British Columbia. An up-to-date look at labour market developments in the first six months of 1989.

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Trade unionism is adapting, as the service sector and women's share of employment expand. This study looks at unionization among women in the service sector during the 1980s. Trends by occupation and industry are examined for full-time and part-time workers, as are the earnings of unionized and non-unionized workers.

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The purpose of this article is to inform Travel-log readers of the availability of a new analytical tool - the National Tourism Indicators. These estimates, which measure trends in tourism in Canada, are placed in perspective here, taking into account the concepts and definitions used in developing them.

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The employment/population ratio is a good barometer of the state of the economy and an important though little-used labour market indicator. This article takes a look at the ratio's strengths and limitations, as well as its variation since 1946. Provincial and international comparisons are included.

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This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident indicator of the business cycle. The impact of using a steady state as opposed to a non steady state assumption, as well as the impact of various corrections for response bias are explored. It is concluded that a non steady state estimator would be a valuable compliment to the statistics on unemployment duration that are currently released by many statistical agencies, and particularly Statistics Canada.

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An overview is presented of several surveys on training and education developed by Statistics Canada.

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This study illustrates quarterly trends in unemployment rates based on alternative measures. By all of the indicators studies there was an overall increase in unemployment during the early 1990s.