Research summary - Impact of education on receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefit payments

Official title of the report: The impact of education on incidence and duration of receiving Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) payments in 2020

Author of the report: Mohammad Chowdhury

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Why this study

The federal government helped Canadians who lost their jobs because of the COVID-19 pandemic by creating the Canada Emergency Response Benefit (CERB) program. This research looks at which workers used CERB, by type of education.

What we did

This research used CERB data to look at:

What we found

What it means

This research shows that those in jobs that required higher levels of education were less likely to have received CERB payments. In contrast, their peers in jobs that required less education were more likely to receive it. This is important learning and labour market information. It may help current and future students understand which job sectors may be hardest hit during global crisis and/or economic uncertainty.

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Learning Branch, Learning Policy and Services Directorate, Policy, Planning and Partnerships Division

Email: esdc.nc.sspb.research-recherche.dgpss.cn.edsc@hrsdc-rhdcc.gc.ca

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