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Record W7083582021 · doi:10.20381/ruor-31414

Essays on Labour Economics

2025· dissertation· en· W7083582021 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUniversity of Ottawa - Library · 2025
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUnemploymentUnemployment rateLabour supplyGender gapCoronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19)Business cyclePandemic

Abstract

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The first chapter studies the labour force participation of older individuals during COVID-19. COVID-19 significantly changed the labour participation rates of older Canadians, leading to substantial flows among employment, unemployment, marginal attachment, and non-attachment. Using the Canadian Labour Force Survey (LFS), this paper examines the impact of these flows on the participation rates of older individuals and explores whether COVID-19 prompted early retirements. Unlike the Great Recession, the pandemic caused significant direct separations from employment to non-participation. Additionally, older women experienced slower participation rate recovery than men due to higher outflows and lower inflows. Notably, many individuals who initially became non-attached to the labour force in early 2020 transitioned back to employment in the following months of the same year. Generally, the pandemic did not increase older individuals' self-reported retirement transitions and reduced their probability of staying non-attached to the labour market. The second chapter examines the cyclicality of worker flows across experience levels in Canada. Using the LFS, I estimate individual monthly transition probabilities over business cycles conditional on labour-market experience and job tenure. The job-finding rate and separation rate are relatively more cyclical for the youth. I find that experience is a major contributor to the cyclical fluctuations in employer-to-employer probabilities, whereas tenure is a major contributor to the cyclicality of employment-to-nonemployment. The third chapter studies the evolution of the gender unemployment gap in Canada. The gender unemployment gap - defined as women's unemployment rates minus men's unemployment rates - was positive before 1990 but has remained negative since then. I decompose the gender unemployment gap into contributions from gender differences in transition flows between employment, unemployment, and non-participation. The results show that gender differences in flows between employment and non-participation have been positive contributors to the gap over time, while gender differences in employment-to-unemployment flows have been a significant negative contributor. Over the decades, the contribution of flows between employment and non-participation has been decreasing. As employment-to-unemployment flows continue to contribute negatively to the gap, the diminishing contribution of flows between employment and non-participation explains the flip of the gender unemployment gap from positive to negative. Furthermore, I find that differences in industry and occupation composition play a significant role in explaining the gender difference in employment-to-unemployment transition rates.

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Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Other · Consensus signal: Other
Teacher disagreement score0.906
Threshold uncertainty score0.711

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.006
GPT teacher head0.166
Teacher spread0.160 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it