Resources: Other Research Reports

Listed alphabetically by publisher

  • C.D. Howe Institute (2011). “Mending Canada's Employment Insurance Quilt: The Case for Restoring Equity.” By Colin Busby and David Gray http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/Backgrounder_144.pdf
  • C.D. Howe Institute (2009). “Back to Basics: Restoring Equity and Efficiency in the EI Program.” By Colin Busby, Alexandre Laurin, and David Gray http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/ebrief_84.pdf
  • C.D. Howe Institute (2004). “Employment Insurance: What Reform Delivered” By David Gray http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/backgrounder_82.pdf
  • C.D. Howe Institute (1997). “Ending the Training Triangle: The Case against Federal-Provincial Programs under EI” By Kenneth J. Boessenkool and William B.P. Robson http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/ken-bill.pdf
  • C.D. Howe Institute (1996). “Employment Insurance: A Framework for Real Reform” By Alice Nakamura http://www.cdhowe.org/pdf/nakamura.pdf
  • Caledon Institute of Social Policy (2010). “EI Financing: Reset Required” By Michael Mendelson http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/902ENG.pdf
  • Caledon Institute of Social Policy (2009). “Canada’s Shrunken Safety Net: Employment Insurance in the Great Recession” By Michael Mendelson and Sherri Torjman http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/773ENG.pdf
  • Caledon Institute of Social Policy (2009). “Gender Aspects of Employment Insurance” By Ken Battle http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/767ENG.pdf
  • Caledon Institute of Social Policy (2009). “Supporting Working Canadian Families: The Role of employment Insurance Special Benefits” By Michael J. Prince http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/819ENG.pdf
  • Caledon Institute of Social Policy (2006). “Towards a New Architecture for Canada's Adult Benefits” By Ken Battle, Michael Mendelson, and Sherri Torjman http://www.caledoninst.org/Publications/PDF/594ENG.pdf
  • Canadian Business Magazine (February 27, 2009). “Rethinking EI: Real Reform is Desperately Needed” By Jack Mintz http://www.canadianbusiness.com/columnists/jack_mitz/article.jsp?content...
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2010). Is EI Working for Canada's Unemployed? Analyzing the Great Recession” By Sylvain Schetagne and Andrew Jackson http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publication...
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2009). “Canada’s Declining Social Safety Net: The Case for EI Reform” By Lars Osberg http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/reports/canadas-declining-...
  • Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (2007). “Women and the Employment Insurance Program” By Monica Townson and Kevin Hayes http://www.policyalternatives.ca/sites/default/files/uploads/publication...
  • Canadian Federation of Independent Business (2009). “Insuring Prosperity: SME Perspectives on the Employment Insurance System” By Ian Dawkins http://www.cfib-fcei.ca/cfib-documents/rr3089.pdf
  • Canadian Chamber of Commerce (2009). “Reforming Canada’s Employment Insurance (EI) Program” http://www.chamber.ca/images/uploads/EI/Reforming_Canadas_Employment_Sys...
  • Dale Orr Economic Insight (2009). “How Increases in EI Premiums Speed Up Deficit Reduction” By Dale Orr http://www.economicinsight.ca/economic_docs/2009oct_eideficitreduction.pdf
  • Groupe d'Analyse for Human Resources and Skills Development Canada (2005). “Employment Insurance in Canada and International Comparisons” By Marc Van Audenrode, Andrée-Anne Fournier, Nathalie Havet and Jimmy Royer http://web.hec.ca/scse/articles/Fournier.pdf
  • International Monetary Fund (2003). “Working Paper: Regional Convergence and the Role of Federal Transfers in Canada.” By Martin Kaufman, Phillip Swagel, and Steven Dunaway http://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/wp/2003/wp0397.pdf
  • The Mark (April 14, 2010). “E-I Spells Post-Recession Welfare,” By John Stapleton http://www.themarknews.com/articles/1238-e-i-spells-post-recession-welfare
  • Metcalf Foundation (2010). “Cutting Through the Fog: Why is it so Hard to Make Sense of Poverty Measures?” By Richard Shillington and John Stapleton http://www.metcalffoundation.com/downloads/Cutting_Through_the_Fog.pdf
  • Policy Options Magazine (September 2009). “A short history of EI , and a look at the road ahead” By Thomas J. Courchene and John R. Allan http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/sep09/courchene.pdf
  • Policy Options Magazine (September 2009). “Time to Get Real on EI Reform” By Jeremy Leonard http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/sep09/leonard.pdf
  • Policy Options Magazine (September 2009). “The Law of Unintended Consequences” By Janice Makinnon http://www.irpp.org/po/archive/sep09/mackinnon.pdf
  • Progressive Economics Forum (Multiple Years). “EI Tagged Entries” Multiple Authors http://www.progressive-economics.ca/category/employment-insurance/
  • Social Planning Toronto (2009). “Uninsured: Why EI is failing working Ontarians” By Navjeet Sidhu http://socialplanningtoronto.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/ei-report.pdf
  • Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working-Age Adults (2006). “Time for a Fair Deal: Report of the Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working-Age Adults” http://www.civicaction.ca/drp/sites/default/files/MISWAA Report Col%...
  • Task Force on Modernizing Income Security for Working-Age Adults (2005). “Employment Insurance: Research Summary” By Jill Black and Richard Shillington http://www.stchrishouse.org/modules/ImageAV/lib/getImage.php?koId=15924&...
  • TD Economics (2010). “An Economist’s Case for Income Security in the 21st Century.” By Don Drummond http://www.td.com/economics/special/dd0810_income_security.pdf
  • TD Economics (2009). “Is Canada's Employment Insurance Program Adequate?” By Grant Bishop and Derek Burleton http://www.td.com/economics/special/gb0409_EI.pdf
  • TD Economics (2009). “How are we doing on social policy? Is the recession paralyzing or transformative?” By Don Drummond http://www.td.com/economics/special/dd0809_speech.pdf
  • Toronto Workforce Innovation Group (2009). “An Economy Out of Shape: Changing the Hourglass” http://www.workforceinnovation.ca/solutions/economy-out-shape-changing-h...
  • Tristat Resources (2005). “Data Note: Measuring Employment Insurance Effectiveness” By Richard Shillington http://www.shillington.ca/publications/EI_Research_Note.pdf
  • Tristat Resources (2001). “Measuring Trends in the Coverage of Unemployment Insurance Employment Insurance” By Richard Shillington http://www.shillington.ca/publications/UI_coverage.pdf
  • Workers Action Centre (2007). “Working on the Edge” By Mary Gellaty: http://www.workersactioncentre.org/!docs/pb_WorkingOnTheEdge_eng.pdf