Job quality in industries dependent on United States demand for Canadian exports / by Marc Frenette, Tahsin Mehdi and René Morissette. : CS36-28-0001/2025-5-2E-PDF

"The United States is Canada's largest trading partner by far. In 2024, 75.9% of Canadian exports went to the United States, while 62.2% of Canada's imports came from the United States. In early 2025, trade tensions emerged between the two countries, leading to U.S. tariffs imposed on Canadian exports and Canadian counter-tariffs imposed on U.S. imports. According to a recent analysis, 8.8% of Canadian workers (corresponding to roughly 1.8 million jobs) were employed in industries dependent on U.S. demand for Canadian exports (henceforth, IDUSCEXs), either directly or indirectly. While it is challenging to estimate the number of job losses that may be associated with U.S. tariffs, it is possible to describe the quality of jobs at risk of being affected by a decline in U.S. demand for Canadian products. This article addresses this issue by examining a multitude of job quality measures in IDUSCEXs. …"--Introduction, page 1.

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