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Assessing Labour Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata

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  • Etienne Lale

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I use publicly available microdata files of the Labour Force Survey (LFS) to construct worker transition rates across employment, unemployment, and inactivity. My approach involves estimating and applying a scaling factor that has been proposed in earlier research as a way of capturing the relative intensity of job search from inactivity compared with unemployment. This factor provides enough structure to prevent arbitrary splitting of unemployment outflows between employment and inactivity. In turn, the estimated job search factor can be used in a few simple step-by-step instructions applied to the LFS public files to assess near real-time labour market conditions in Canada. An analysis of the recent dynamics of worker flows illustrating the practicality of my approach highlights that transition rates (a) from employment to unemployment have fallen over time, (b) from unemployment to employment were unusually high during the pandemic, and (c) have regional differences.

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  • Etienne Lale, 2024. "Assessing Labour Market Conditions in Canada with Public-Use Microdata," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 50(2), pages 217-231, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:50:y:2024:i:2:p:217-231
    DOI: 10.3138/cpp.2023-039
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    Keywords

    employment; unemployment; labour force participation; gross worker flows;
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    JEL classification:

    • E24 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Consumption, Saving, Production, Employment, and Investment - - - Employment; Unemployment; Wages; Intergenerational Income Distribution; Aggregate Human Capital; Aggregate Labor Productivity
    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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