Labour Market – The Progressive Economics Forum

ROCHON on: A tale of two economies? Making sense of recent US and Canadian labour market data

March 13, 2015 Louis-Philippe Rochon 10 comments

Louis-Philippe ROCHON Associate Professor, Laurentian University Co-Editor, Review of Keynesian Economics Follow him on Twitter @Lprochon With data on the performance of Canadaâ€™s labour market released today, many economists and pundits on both sides of the 49th parallel are arguing that what seems to be emerging is two very clear and different paths for the US and Canadian economies. […]

More Evidence that Temporary Foreign Worker Program Takes Jobs Away from Canadians

April 24, 2014 Iglika Ivanova 6 comments

Yet another report, this time by SFU Public Policy Professor Dominique M. Gross, finds evidence that Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker Program is bad for domestic workers. The report looks at BC and Alberta specifically and concludes that the expansion of the TFW program between 2007 and 2010 resulted in an increase in unemployment levels by 4.8 percentage points in BC […]