Research reports
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) produces objective research studies in support of its policy development work.
- Defining and measuring the quality of Early Learning and Child Care: A literature review
- Increasing Retirement Savings in Workplace Pension Plans through Simplified Enrolment: A Demonstration Project
- Nunavut Inuit Labour Force Analysis report: Executive summary
- Nunavut Inuit Labour Force Analysis report: Executive summary (Inuinnaqtun)
- Nunavut Inuit Labour Force Analysis report: Executive summary (Inuktitut)
Research studies
Research summaries
Employment
- Canadian youth attitudes towards the trades
- Characteristics of firms hiring apprentices
- Employment insurance
- Future skills in the labour market
- How important are non-cognitive skills to earnings
- Job-finding rate and unemployment
- Measuring unemployment
- Trends in temporary layoffs and recall expectations
- Telework and employment change due to COVID-19
- Job Bank use by employers of temporary foreign workers
- Job vacancies and employment insurance utilization
- Employment Insurance usage and the labour market experience of immigrants
Income security and social development
Labour Program
- Assessing research designs to explore the impact of the Employment Equity Act
- Collective representation and bargaining for self-employed workers
- Ethnographic research on workers in vulnerable circumstances
- Exploring potential occupational monitoring initiatives
- Improving employer compliance through behavioural insights
- Inaccurate reporting by members of designated groups
- Jurisdiction determination mapping project
- Measuring enterprise safety climate
Learning
- Education and training experiences of Indigenous People
- Understanding transitions to post-secondary education
- Characteristics and barriers of adult learners
- Distance education in Canada
- Effects of the Pathways program on post-secondary education
- Empowering youth for post-secondary education preparedness
- Families saving for post-secondary education
- Impacts of COVID-19 on Canadian post-secondary education
- Work-integrated learning in Canada
Service
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