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1. Working from home and public transit use in Canada, 2016 to 2023
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202400100002
Description: The increase in work from home triggered by the COVID-19 pandemic directly decreased public transit use. While this increase in work from home likely reduced commuting and greenhouse gas emissions caused by transportation, it also put downward pressure on the revenues and ridership of urban public transit systems. This article assesses the degree to which the increase in work from home observed in Canada in recent years may have reduced the number of public transit commuters from 2016 to 2023 in urban areas.
Release date: 2024-01-24
2. Research to Insights: Working from home in Canada
Stats in brief: 11-631-X2024001
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial increase in work from home in Canada. This presentation synthesizes what has been learned to date regarding this increase in work from home and documents its potential implications for productivity, employee retention, commuting, greenhouse gas emissions, and public transit use.
Release date: 2024-01-18
3. Tax-filing rates of newly landed immigrants in Canada: Trends and insights
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301100004
Description: There is considerable policy interest in engaging hard-to-reach populations in Canada and integrating them into the tax system so they can receive the benefits intended to support them. Using the Longitudinal Immigration Database, this study provides insights into the tax-filing behaviour of newly landed immigrants and their families over time in Canada.
Release date: 2023-11-22
4. Employee paid sick leave coverage in Canada, 1995 to 2022
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202301000001
Description: Until recently, a scarcity of data on paid sick leave (PSL) hindered recent efforts to measure PSL coverage in Canada, an important limitation highlighted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This study fills this information gap. Using the 1995 Survey of Work Arrangements and the Labour Force Survey from 2020 to 2022, this study documents the evolution of employee PSL coverage in Canada from 1995 to 2022.
Release date: 2023-10-25
5. Working Most Hours from Home: New Estimates for January to April 2022
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2023006
Description: Using Statistics Canada’s COVID-19 Restriction Index and estimates of telework feasibility, this study models, for the period from January 2020 to July 2022, the percentage of Canadian workers who worked most of their hours from home in a given province during a given month.
Release date: 2023-07-17
6. Work Absences Due to Injury or Illness and Employee Retention in the Child Care Services Industry Before the COVID-19 Pandemic
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2023005
Description: Despite evidence showing that early childhood educators and assistants are at risk of contracting infectious or non-infectious diseases or suffering physical injuries, no Canadian study has investigated the degree to which:
a) early childhood educators and assistants incur work absences due to injury or illness in a given year;
b) such absences are associated with an increased likelihood of leaving the child care sector during that year or subsequent years.
This study fills this information gap.
Release date: 2023-06-14
7. Unemployment and job vacancies by education, 2016 to 2022
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202300500001
Description: The increase in the number of job vacancies observed in Canada over the last few years has attracted considerable attention. This article provides new insights on this issue by comparing the number of job vacancies requiring a given education level with the number of unemployed individuals with such education.
Release date: 2023-05-24
8. Unionization in Canada, 1981 to 2022
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202201100001
Description:
The Canadian economy has experienced numerous changes over the last four decades. Employment has moved away from manufacturing and towards service sector jobs. Technological changes have brought computer-based technologies and, more recently, robotics and artificial intelligence to the workplace. World prices of oil and natural resources have fluctuated considerably. Since March 2020, work arrangements have been altered substantially, with thousands of employees starting to work from home. In this evolving context, how have unionization rates evolved in Canada over the last four decades? This article uses data from the Survey of Work History of 1981 and the Labour Force Survey to answer this question.

Release date: 2022-11-23
9. Employer responses to labour shortages
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200700001
Description:
As the labour market recovers from the COVID-19 pandemic, it is imperative to assess which strategies Canadian employers plan to use over the next few months to cope with labour scarcity. This study documents the strategies that private sector businesses expecting labour shortages at the beginning of 2022 plan to use during that year to deal with personnel recruitment, retention and training. The study also investigates the degree to which businesses’ plans to offer telework and flexible scheduling varies across industries.

Release date: 2022-07-27
10. Entering postsecondary education after job loss: Family-level considerations
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202200600003
Description:
Every year, thousands of Canadian workers lose their job. The opportunities for coping with job loss through postsecondary education (PSE) transitions might be unequally distributed across Canadian families, perhaps even more so than across Canadian workers. Using data from Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File (LWF), the T1 Family File (T1FF), the Post-Secondary Information System (PSIS), and the 2006 Census of Population, this study quantifies the degree to which the likelihood of entering PSE or a new field of study after job loss varies, all else equal, across types of family units and, among dual-earner couples, with the earnings or the risk of job loss of the spouse.

Release date: 2022-06-22

Stats in brief (10)

Stats in brief (10) ((10 results))

1. Research to Insights: Working from home in Canada
Stats in brief: 11-631-X2024001
Description: The COVID-19 pandemic led to a substantial increase in work from home in Canada. This presentation synthesizes what has been learned to date regarding this increase in work from home and documents its potential implications for productivity, employee retention, commuting, greenhouse gas emissions, and public transit use.
Release date: 2024-01-18
2. Workers receiving payments from the Canada Emergency Response Benefit program in 2020
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202100100021
Description:
The Canada Emergency Response Benefit program (CERB) was introduced to provide financial support to employees and self-employed workers in Canada who were directly impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. This article examines the proportion of 2019 workers who received CERB payments in 2020 by various characteristics. CERB take-up rates are presented by industry, earnings group in 2019, sex, age group and province, as well as for population groups designated as visible minorities, immigrants and Indigenous people. Some factors that help explain differences in take-up rates among these groups of workers are also examined.

Release date: 2021-06-02
3. Working from home: Productivity and preferences Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202100100012
Description:
To what extent are teleworkers more or less productive now relative to when they were at their usual place of work? For those who are less productive, what are the main barriers to productivity? Once the pandemic is over, how many Canadians would prefer to work most of their hours at home or outside the home?

Answers to these questions are crucial to inform discussions about the sustainability of telework in a post COVID-19 context.

To shed light on these questions, this study uses the supplement to the Labour Force Survey of February 2021.

Release date: 2021-04-01
4. Job displacement in the oil and gas industry in Canada Archived
Stats in brief: 11-627-M2020068
Description: Efforts to make a transition to a low carbon economy have raised concerns that workers displaced from traditional energy-producing sectors might experience substantial earnings declines after job loss. Using data from a rich administrative dataset, this infographic documents the employment and earnings trajectories of oil and gas workers who were displaced from 1995 to 2016.
Release date: 2020-12-01
5. COVID-19 and job displacement: Thinking about the longer term Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100030
Description:
It is too early to know how many Canadian workers will lose their job, i.e. will be permanently laid-off, as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic and what will happen to them financially after job loss. Yet a number of stylized facts emerge from the past. While these facts do not necessarily allow accurate predictions of the impact of the pandemic on job displacement, they provide a long-term perspective from which forthcoming labour market developments can be assessed. The goal of this article is to highlight these facts.
Release date: 2020-06-10
6. Inequality in the feasibility of working from home during and after COVID-19 Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100029
Description:
The economic lockdown to stop the spread of COVID-19 has led to steep declines in employment and hours worked for many Canadians. For workers in essential services, in jobs that can be done with proper physical distancing measures or in jobs that can be done from home, the likelihood of experiencing a work interruption during the pandemic is lower than for other workers. This article assesses how the feasibility of working from home varies across Canadian families. It also considers the implications of these differences for family earnings inequality.

Release date: 2020-06-08
7. Running the economy remotely: Potential for working from home during and after COVID-19 Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100026
Description:
Physical distancing measures to stop the spread of COVID-19 have resulted in a large number of Canadians working from home, many for the first time. This sudden transition in how the economy is operating raises questions about how many jobs can reasonably be performed from home.
Release date: 2020-05-28
8. Work interruptions and financial vulnerability Archived
Stats in brief: 45-28-0001202000100010
Description:
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to massive work interruptions in Canada and several other countries since mid-March 2020. The resulting economic lockdown has raised concerns about the ability of Canadian families to meet their financial obligations and essential needs. This article focuses on families who rely primarily on earnings—wages and salaries and self-employment income—to maintain their living standards.
Release date: 2020-05-06
9. The surge of women in the workforce Archived
Stats in brief: 11-630-X2015009
Description:
In this edition of Canadian Megatrends, we look at increased participation of women in the paid workforce since the 1950s.
Release date: 2015-12-17
10. Pensions: The ups and downs of pension coverage in Canada Archived
Stats in brief: 11-630-X2015003
Description:
This edition of Canadian Megatrends examines the changes in pension coverage for men and women in the 20th century.
Release date: 2015-03-24

Articles and reports (120)

Articles and reports (120) (20 to 30 of 120 results)

21. Workers’ responses to job loss when employment opportunities are scarce
Articles and reports: 36-28-0001202100200002
Description:
This Insights article examines the degree to which workers who lost their job in 2009 started a business, changed regions, went back to school or began a registered apprenticeship in 2010, the year following job loss. The analysis combines the 2001 Census of Population with Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File and Registered Apprenticeship Information System.

Release date: 2021-02-24
22. Canadians' Views on Automation and Net Job Creation in 1989: Were They Right?
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2020025
Description:
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, advances in artificial intelligence and robotics raised concerns that automation might lead to relatively high unemployment rates in the coming years. This Economic Insights article examines the degree to which Canadians’ views about the impact of automation on net job creation in 1989 materialized three decades later.
Release date: 2020-11-02
23. How Do Workers Displaced from Energy-producing Sectors Fare after Job Loss? Evidence from the Oil and Gas Industry
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2020021
Description: The last two decades have seen substantial movements in the price of oil and other commodities. Oil prices more than doubled from the early 2000s to 2008, fell during the 2008-2009 recession and dropped sharply after 2014. These price declines have led to increases in permanent layoff rates in the oil and gas industry in Canada, especially in recent years. This Economic Insights article examines how workers displaced from the oil and gas industry in recent years have fared after job loss. The analysis uses Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File.
Release date: 2020-09-22
24. How Do Workers Displaced from Traditional Energy-producing Sectors Fare after Job Loss? Evidence from Coal Mining
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2020022
Description: Efforts to make a transition to a low carbon economy have raised concerns that workers displaced from traditional energy-producing sectors might experience substantial earnings declines after job loss. This Economic Insights article examines how workers displaced from coal mining in recent years have fared after job loss. The analysis uses Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File.
Release date: 2020-09-22
25. The Changing Job Landscape, 1981 to 2019
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2020005
Description:
This Economic Insights article examines how jobs held by Canadian employees have changed over the last four decades, prior to the COVID-19 pandemic. The analysis uses a wide variety of data sets to document the evolution of selected job characteristics from 1981 to 2019.
Release date: 2020-06-23
26. Permanent Layoff Rates in Canada, 1978 to 2016
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2020006
Description:
The Canadian labour market has seen significant changes since the late 1970s. This article examines the evolution of layoff rates in Canada from 1978 to 2016, the last year for which data on permanent layoffs are currently available. The analysis uses Statistics Canada’s Longitudinal Worker File and focuses on employees aged 25 to 64.
Release date: 2020-06-23
27. The Impact of the Manufacturing Decline on Local Labour Markets in Canada
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2020003
Description:
From the early 2000s to the mid-2010s, the number of employees in manufacturing fell by roughly half a million in Canada. During that period, the percentage of Canadian men aged 21 to 55 employed mainly full time for at least 48 weeks in a given year fell by 5 percentage points, from 63.6% in 2000 to 58.6% in 2015. This study investigates whether the two trends are connected, i.e., whether the decline in manufacturing employment caused a decline in employment rates and wages among men.
Release date: 2020-01-15
28. Residential Property Ownership Among Refugees in Vancouver and Toronto
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2019011
Geography: Census metropolitan area
Description: From 1980 to 2017, Canada welcomed 1,088,000 refugees, an average of about 30,000 per year. For many refugees, homeownership is an important milestone in their path to social and economic integration. This article in the Economic Insights series highlights new data on homeownership among residents who came to Canada as resettled refugees. It reports on how the stock of refugee-owned housing in Vancouver and Toronto compares to that of Canadian-born residents, highlighting differences in property values across various segments of the housing market. Information on the location, age and size of properties and on the age and income of property owners is used to assess relative differences in property values between the two groups. Estimates are based on data developed by the Canadian Housing Statistics Program, released in December 2018.
Release date: 2019-06-18
29. The Wealth of Immigrant Families in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2019010
Description:
While several studies have documented the evolution of the earnings of immigrants in Canada over the last three decades, the evolution of immigrants’ wealth has received relatively little attention. Using data from the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, 2005, 2012 and 2016, this study fills this gap. The study uncovers several key patterns.
Release date: 2019-04-16
30. Financial Expectations and Household Debt Archived
Articles and reports: 11-626-X2019005
Description:
This Economic Insights article quantifies the degree to which families who expect their financial situation to get better in the next two years have, all else equal, more debt than comparable families. The data are drawn from the Survey of Financial Security for 1999, 2005 and 2016. The term “family” is used to refer to family units and includes economic families and unattached individuals. Debt and income estimates are shown in 2016 dollars. The study shows that even after a large set of socioeconomic characteristics is controlled for, families who expect their financial situation to improve in the near future have significantly more debt and generally higher debt-to-income ratios than other families.
Release date: 2019-04-04

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