IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/cpp/issued/v26y2000is1p27-58.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Canadian Labour Market Developments in International Context: Flexibility, Regulation and Demand

Author

Listed:
  • Jim Stanford

Abstract

Canada's labour market performed badly in the 1990s, compared both to the set of industrialized countries and to its main comparator, the United States. This has prompted numerous calls for measures that would make Canada's labour market more "flexible." Much evidence suggests, however, that Canada's labour market is not at all "inflexible," in the common sense of being able to change and to adapt to change. Advocates of labour market flexibility are often actually calling for policies of labour market deregulation. While Canada's labour market is more regulated than that of the US, by international standards it is relatively deregulated. There is no correlation, however, between the intensity of labour market regulation and the employment performance of OECD countries during the 1990s; aggregate demand conditions are a more powerful predictor of employment performance than are comparative regulatory structures.

Suggested Citation

  • Jim Stanford, 2000. "Canadian Labour Market Developments in International Context: Flexibility, Regulation and Demand," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 26(s1), pages 27-58, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:26:y:2000:i:s1:p:27-58
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0317-0861%28200007%2926%3CS27%3ACLMDII%3E2.0.CO%3B2-H
    Download Restriction: only available to JSTOR subscribers
    ---><---

    As the access to this document is restricted, you may want to search for a different version of it.

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Peter Kuhn, "undated". "Canada and the "OECD Hypothesis": Does Labour Market Inflexibility Explain Canada's High Level of Unemployment?," Canadian International Labour Network Working Papers 10, McMaster University.
    2. Coulombe, S. & Lee, F.C., 1993. "Regional Economic Disparities in Canada," Working Papers 9317e, University of Ottawa, Department of Economics.
    3. Jørgen Elmeskov & Karl Pichelmann, 1993. "Unemployment and Labour Force Participation: Trends and Cycles," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 130, OECD Publishing.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Thomas I. Palley, 2001. "The Role of Institutions and Policies in Creating High European," Macroeconomics 0108007, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    2. Jim Stanford, 2005. "Revisiting the "Flexibility Hypothesis"," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 31(1), pages 109-116, March.
    3. Dilmaghani, Maryam, 2020. "Beauty perks: Physical appearance, earnings, and fringe benefits," Economics & Human Biology, Elsevier, vol. 38(C).

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Furceri, Davide & Mourougane, Annabelle, 2012. "The effect of financial crises on potential output: New empirical evidence from OECD countries," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 34(3), pages 822-832.
    2. ?gel de la Fuente, "undated". "Convergence Across Countries And Regions: Theory And Empirics," UFAE and IAE Working Papers 447.00, Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica (UAB) and Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica (CSIC).
    3. Alberto Díaz Dapena & Fernando Rubiera Morollón & Mônica de Moura Pires & Andréa da Silva Gomes, 2017. "Convergence in Brazil: new evidence using a multilevel approach," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 49(50), pages 5050-5062, October.
    4. Riddell, W. Craig, 2011. "Unemployment Compensation and Adjustment Assistance for Displaced Workers: Policy Options for Canada," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2011-31, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 22 Dec 2011.
    5. Élisabeth Algava & Mathieu Plane, 2001. "Vieillissement et protection sociale. Comparaison de six pays de l'Union Européenne," Revue de l'OFCE, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 79(4), pages 261-314.
    6. Valérie Chauvin & Mathieu Plane, 2001. "2000-2040 : population active et croissance," Revue de l'OFCE, Presses de Sciences-Po, vol. 79(4), pages 235-259.
    7. Riddell, W. Craig, 2009. "Economic Change and Worker Displacement in Canada: Consequences and Policy Responses," CLSSRN working papers clsrn_admin-2009-41, Vancouver School of Economics, revised 22 Jul 2009.
    8. Davide Furceri & Annabelle Mourougane, 2010. "Une lecture de la crise à la lumière des crises passées," Économie et Statistique, Programme National Persée, vol. 438(1), pages 19-42.
    9. Alasia, Alessandro, 2003. "Sub-Provincial Income Disparity in Canada: Evidence From 1992 to 1999," Agriculture and Rural Working Paper Series 28057, Statistics Canada.
    10. Paul Cashdm, 1995. "Economic Growth and Convergence Across the Seven Colonies of Australasia: 1861–1991," The Economic Record, The Economic Society of Australia, vol. 71(2), pages 132-144, June.
    11. repec:spo:wpecon:info:hdl:2441/2245 is not listed on IDEAS
    12. Sala-i-Martin, Xavier X., 1996. "Regional cohesion: Evidence and theories of regional growth and convergence," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 40(6), pages 1325-1352, June.
    13. Andrew Heisz & Andrew Jackson & Garnett Picot, 2001. "Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s," The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress, in: Andrew Sharpe, Executive Director & France St-Hilaire, Vice-President , Research & Keith Banting, Di (ed.), The Review of Economic Performance and Social Progress 2001: The Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s, volume 1, Centre for the Study of Living Standards;The Institutute for Research on Public Policy.
    14. repec:zbw:bofrdp:1995_012 is not listed on IDEAS
    15. de la Fuente, Angel, 2002. "On the sources of convergence: A close look at the Spanish regions," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 46(3), pages 569-599, March.
    16. Alberto Díaz Dapena & Fernando Rubiera-Morollon & Dusan Paredes, 2019. "New Approach to Economic Convergence in the EU: A Multilevel Analysis from the Spatial Effects Perspective," International Regional Science Review, , vol. 42(3-4), pages 335-367, May.
    17. repec:hal:wpspec:info:hdl:2441/2245 is not listed on IDEAS
    18. Tyrväinen, Timo, 1995. "Wage determination in the long run, real wage resistance and unemployment : Multivariate analysis of cointegrating relations in 10 OECD economies," Research Discussion Papers 12/1995, Bank of Finland.
    19. Jørgen Elmeskov, 1993. "High and Persistent Unemployment: Assessment of the Problem and Its Causes," OECD Economics Department Working Papers 132, OECD Publishing.
    20. Mario Lefebvre, 1997. "Les marchés du travail régionaux : une comparaison entre le Canada et les États-Unis," Staff Working Papers 97-17, Bank of Canada.
    21. Coulombe, Serge & Lee, Frank C., 1998. "Évolution à long terme de la convergence régionale au Canada," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 74(1), pages 5-27, mars.
    22. Jim Stanford, 2005. "Revisiting the "Flexibility Hypothesis"," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 31(1), pages 109-116, March.
    23. Timothy C. Sargent, 2000. "Structural Unemployment and Technological Change in Canada, 1990-1999," Canadian Public Policy, University of Toronto Press, vol. 26(s1), pages 109-123, July.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cpp:issued:v:26:y:2000:i:s1:p:27-58. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Iver Chong (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://www.utpjournals.press/loi/cpp .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.