Characteristics Of The Unemployed In Canada: Leavers, Losers And Layoffs

Abstract

This research identifies the need to disaggregate unemployed persons into job leaver, job loser and job layoff categorizations. Multinominal logit regression on Labor Force Survey data (n=38,546) confirms that demographic, human capital and work-related variables account for almost a third of the variance in likelihood to fall into the disaggregated unemployment categories in Canada.