OTTAWA—Prime working age men are bearing the brunt of Canada's recession, says a new report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
According to the report, 71% of those who have lost their jobs in the recession so far are men. Canada's unemployment gender gap is wider now than at any time since Statistics Canada began collecting monthly gender unemployment statistics in 1976.
Employment and labour
The Conservative itch to cut government can't stay repressed for too
long, even when they are in government and in charge of a full-blown
economic crisis.
In mid-June, Finance Minister Flaherty went
off to meetings with the G8 talking up the idea that it was "time to
have a discussion on how to disengage from the fiscal stimulus." Last
week in Italy, Prime Minister Harper reluctantly agreed with other
world leaders that things were still too shaky to start cutting back on
government help.
OTTAWA—Employment Insurance benefits in Canada are well below the OECD average, says a new study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA).
The study, by economist Lars Osberg, finds that in terms of access, benefit duration, and income replacement levels, EI in Canada falls far below most other OECD countries and below the levels of Canadian unemployment insurance in past recessions.
Unconventional Wisdom reproduces three lectures about the state of economics in the 21st century, inspired by the life and work of the late John Kenneth Galbraith, a great Canadian and one of the most influential economists of all time. The lectures form the first works related to a new biennial prize in economics, established by the Progressive Economics Forum, in Galbraith’s honour.