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Labour Market Seasonality in Canada: Trends and Policy Implications

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  • Andrew Sharpe
  • Jeremy Smith

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This report examines labour market seasonality in Canada over the past three decades to assess what policies might best address seasonal economies. Key findings include: overall seasonality has declined since 1976 across a wide range of output and labour market variables, though unemployment rate seasonality has increased since 1996; seasonality is higher for young workers and men than for older workers and women; Canada's employment seasonality was more than three times higher than the United States in 2003; and relative to OECD countries, Canada has average unemployment rate seasonality but very high employment seasonality. The report discusses policy implications including people versus place prosperity and policy approaches to address seasonal unemployment.

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  • Andrew Sharpe & Jeremy Smith, 2005. "Labour Market Seasonality in Canada: Trends and Policy Implications," CSLS Research Reports 2005-01, Centre for the Study of Living Standards.
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    1. Wen-Hao Chen & Feng Hou, 2019. "The Effect of Unemployment on Life Satisfaction: A Cross-National Comparison Between Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United States," Applied Research in Quality of Life, Springer;International Society for Quality-of-Life Studies, vol. 14(4), pages 1035-1058, September.
    2. RADLIŃSKA Kamila & KLONOWSKA -MATYNIA, 2018. "Seasonality of Employment in Poland and a Selected Countries of the European Union," Journal of Economic and Social Development, Clinical Journals Press, vol. 5(01), pages 01-08.
    3. John Coglianese & Brendan M. Price, 2026. "Income in the Off-Season: Household Adaptation to Yearly Work Interruptions," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 79(3), pages 408-434, May.

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