Why is Canada's unemployment rate persistently higher than in the United States?

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 31, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 93-100

  Riddell, W Craig ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; LABOR MARKET; UNEMPLOYMENT;

CANADA; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 19344371287     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3552598     Document Type: Article

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2. Fortin, P. 1996. "The Great Canadian Slump," Canadian Journal of Economics 29(4):761-87.
3. Riddell, W.C. 1999. "Canadian Labour Market Performance in International Perspective," Canadian Journal of Economics 32(5):1097-34.
4. Statistics Canada. 1998. Labour Force Update: Canada-US Labour Market Comparison. Ottawa: Statistics Canada.
5. Zagorsky, J. 1996. "The Effects of Definitional Differences on US and Canadian Unemployment Rates," Canadian Business Economics 4(2):13-21.