Reports
The final recommendations of the Mowat Centre Employment Insurance Task Force.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Robin Boadway and Jean-Denis Garon explore the challenges of designing EI systems in federal countries.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Alain Noël examines four recent Quebec labour market and income support initiatives.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Kathleen Day and Stanley Winer review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada’s unemployment insurance system.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Morley Gunderson examines how Canada's EI system interacts with the changing world of work.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Alison Bramwell examines the evolution of active labour market programs in Canada.
Unemployment Compensation and Adjustment Assistance for Displaced Workers: Policy Options for Canada
BACKGROUND PAPER - Craig Riddell examines the role of EI in providing support to “displaced workers,” those who permanently lose their jobs because of changing economic circumstances.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Jon Medow analyzes regional differentiation in EI weekly benefit calculation and the uneven federal approach to support of low income workers.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Luc Turgeon analyzes the design of "special benefits" in EI, such as parental and maternity leave.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Donna Wood and Thomas Klassen propose changes to the governance of EI and training.
BACKGROUND PAPER - William Scarth analyzes three broad approaches to the provision of income support from a macro-economic perspective.
BACKGROUND PAPER - John Stapleton examines changes in social assistance caseloads coming out of the major economic recession that began in the fall of 2008.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Leah F. Vosko identifies the gaps in EI coverage in today's labour market.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Stephen Jones investigates the effectiveness of policies to help workers displaced from long-tenure jobs.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Michael Pal and Sujit Choudhry investigate the constitutionality of regional entrance requirements in Canada's EI system.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Michael Mendelson and Ken Battle investigate the gaps in Canada's system of support for the unemployed and propose to fill them with Temporary Unemployment Assistance, a new federal benefit.
Many aspects of the Employment Insurance system in Canada are controversial, but perhaps its most controversial element is the regional differentiation that characterizes access to, length of and size of benefits. This Mowat Note looks to 17 other OECD countries, including all eight OECD federations, to see how they address this thorny issue.
BACKGROUND PAPER - Ross Finnie, David Gray, Ian Irvine, and Yan Zhang chart the labour market outcomes and income sources of individuals who exhaust EI regular benefits. The focus is on individuals who worked for an extended period prior to receiving EI.
How well did Canada’s EI system perform during the most recent recession compared to previous recessions?
This discussion paper is intended as a general resource for framing the EI Task Force’s work. It begins by describing how the current EI program works.
This report outlines the central themes that emerged through the Task Force’s consultation process.
The workbook is a tool for having your say. It is a fillable pdf document with space to type in answers to questions about how the EI system should work. The deadline for submissions is March 31.
