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Waiting for Recovery : The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020

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  • Stephen R.G. Jones

    (McMaster University)

  • Fabian Lange

    (McGill University and CIREQ and NBER and IZA)

  • W. Craig Riddell

    (University of British Columbia and IZA)

  • Casey Warman

    (Dalhousie University and NBER)

Abstract

The Canadian labour market is currently emerging from a holding pattern with unusually high numbers in temporary (or “recall”) unemployment, those “employed but absent from work” for unspecified reasons, or not in the labour force while waiting to be recalled. Two encouraging signs are evident. New postings of vacancies have recovered from 50% percent to about 80% of their pre-crisis level. Also, data suggest that the increase in employment in May 2020 is due to some of those waiting to be recalled re-entering employment. These patterns suggest that a reasonably quick rebound of the labour market may be possible. Warning signs are that the shares of the unemployed without job attachment as well as those on recall engaged in job search are beginning to increase.

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  • Stephen R.G. Jones & Fabian Lange & W. Craig Riddell & Casey Warman, 2020. "Waiting for Recovery : The Canadian Labour Market in June 2020," Cahiers de recherche 17-2020, Centre interuniversitaire de recherche en économie quantitative, CIREQ.
    • Handle: RePEc:mtl:montec:17-2020
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    Keywords

    COVID-19; vacancies; unemployment; employment;
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    JEL classification:

    • J21 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Force and Employment, Size, and Structure
    • J22 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Time Allocation and Labor Supply
    • J23 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demand and Supply of Labor - - - Labor Demand
    • J63 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Mobility, Unemployment, Vacancies, and Immigrant Workers - - - Turnover; Vacancies; Layoffs

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