Worker reallocation in Canada : Réallocation des travailleurs au Canada

In the aggregate, the pace of worker reallocation observed during the 2000s was, at about 45% of paid employment, fairly similar to that observed in the United States and the United Kingdom. [...] In the aggregate, men’s layoff rates were almost twice as high as women’s, but the difference largely reflected the predominance of men in industries with higher-than-average layoff rates (e.g., construction, mining, quarrying, and oil and gas extraction) and the predominance of women in sectors with lower-than-average layoff rates (e.g., educational services, health care, and social assistance). [...] In the aggregate, the pace of worker reallocation observed during the 2000s was, at about 45% of paid employment, fairly similar to those observed in the United States and the United Kingdom. [...] The third question is whether the magnitude of worker reallocation in the Canadian labour market was higher in recent years than it was in the 1980s and 1990s. [...] Some 26% to 27% of workers started a job during the expansionary periods of the late-1970s and the late-1980s, while the hiring rate was slightly lower, at about 23% to 24%, during the expansionary period of the mid-2000s.