Early bird registration deadline for our April 25-26 conference in Toronto is TODAY at 7:00pm EST. Check out our conference website! You don't want to miss being part of this historic event in the annals of Canadian labour economics. 👉

Join us Friday at 1-2pm EST for our first webinar of 2025. Catherine Michaud-Leclerc (Laval University) will present “Long-Term Effects of School Quality in Low-Income Countries: Evidence From 15 Years of Data.”. Registration instructions are here:

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For those interested in Canadian immigration policy, @Laurier is hosting an event on February 12 at 2:30-4:00pm EST. Registration details at:

Paper submissions deadline for CLEF's First Annual Conference is next Wednesday (January 15). Don't miss your opportunity to part of this historic event! Submission portal is here:

Join us this FRIDAY at 1-2pm EST for our next webinar. @FernandoSaltiel will present "The Impact of Government Grants in College Savings Accounts: Evidence from the Canada Learning Bond." Don't miss it! Registration instructions here:

Join us this Friday at 1-2pm ET for our next CLEF webinar. @JWLaliberte (University of Calgary) will present "Parental Income in the Labour Market." Full schedule and registration instructions here:

RT @mioana: Looking forward to my keynote at the Canadian Labour Economics Forum! And to seeing you all in Toronto! Submit your papers now,….

Join us in Toronto on April 25-26, 2025 for the First Annual Conference of the Canadian Labour Economics Forum (CLEF). Our keynote speaker is @mioana. Paper submission deadline is January 15. For more information visit:

Why do union workers earn more? Are they more productive? Are they better able to capture business profits? What’s the hard evidence say? Find out today.@ 1-2pm ET. Raffaele Saggio (UBC), "Why Do Union Jobs Pay More?”. To get the Zoom link send an email to @clef@uwaterloo.ca.

New CLEF research finds Quebec's 2006 Paternity Leave Policy significantly increased fathers' uptake of parental leave but had no effect on the earnings and employment activity of fathers or mothers 10 years following childbirth. Read the full study. 👉

A new CLEF Working Paper from finds that the Working Income Tax Benefit (WITB) serves to increase employment rates of single low-income Canadians but lowers the working hours of those with jobs. Read the full study. 👉

RT @LCERPA_EconWLU: @tammyschirle (@LazaridisSchool, @CLEForum) has a new paper just out @CDHoweInstitute that takes a deep dive into remot….

New CLEF working paper by @siha_lee_eco and Sitian Liu finds that Quebec's 1997 Family Policy introducing universal childcare reduced overall fertility, but had different effects of women depending on their age when the policy was introduced. 👉

RT @LCERPA_EconWLU: Super-excited to see @LazaridisSchool 's @antomancino as the season opener for the @CLEForum webinar series for 2024-25….

RT @CMichaudLeclerc: Great line up for this year's CLEF Webinar Series!! Sign up to attend! . In Jan. 2025, I'll be presenting new work co-….

Register for the 2024-2025 CLEF Webinar Series!. Season opener on September 20 at 1-2pm ET. Full schedule: To register, send an email to clef@uwaterloo.ca with "CLEF Webinar" in the subject line.

RT @mikalskuterud: Research by @ChrisJWorswick and coauthors mentioned in today's Bloomberg piece below was published by @CanJEcon and init….

Working papers of three winners of our 2024 Best Young Researcher Paper Competition are now available. 1) Worker sorting and inequality: 2) Workplace training: 3) Childcare policy: Take some time to read!.

RT @CMichaudLeclerc: @CLEForum panel with the amazing @KOFFIMARLNE1, @DwayneBenjami20 and Sermin Gungor on how the profession envisions inc….

*NEW* Former @CanEconomics Pres Pierre Fortin finds "the common-sense belief that more immigration contributes to reducing economy-wide labour scarcity is wrong and constitutes a dangerous fallacy of composition." .ENGLISH👉FRENCH 👉