00000nam 2200000za 4500 9.861648 CaOODSP 20221107160819 cr ||||||||||| 180906s1978 oncd||| o f000 0 eng d 0-662-01591-6 CaOODSP eng eng fre n-cn--- EC22-3/1978-105E-PDF EC25-105/1978 Swan, Neil M., 1937- Growth and unemployment in eastern Canada [electronic resource] / by Neil Swan. Ottawa : Minister of Supply and Services Canada, c1978. iv, 46 p. : charts Discussion paper ; no. 105 "February 1978." Digitized edition from print [produced by the Publishing and Depository Services Directorate]. Includes bibliographic references. "For a generation or more, Quebec and the Atlantic region have had sharply higher unemployment rates than the rest of Canada, the United States, and Western Europe. Two explanations have generally been given for this problem. One, in a neoclassical tradition, suggests that seasonality, and structural and frictional problems in the labour market of Eastern Canada, account for the unemployment difference. The second sees the cause as weakness in demand for products from the region, especially exports of manufactured products to the rest of the country or the rest of the world. The paper argues that these explanations can only be part of the story, for each is contradicted by some of the observed data. A model is developed which is in closer conformity with observation. It incorporates elements of both the above theories, but also allows for additional chronic unemployment, caused by pressure to attain wage parity with the rest of Canada"--Summary, p. iv. Includes summary in French. gccst Unemployment gccst Income gccst Economic conditions Economic Council of Canada. Discussion paper (Economic Council of Canada) no. 105 (CaOODSP)9.855540 PDF 5.05 MB https://publications.gc.ca/collections/collection_2018/ecc/EC22-3-1978-105-eng.pdf