2023-2024

2023-2024 Webinar Series

All seminars are on Fridays from 1:00-2:00pm ET.

Send an email to clef@uwaterloo.ca with “CLEF webinar” in the subject line if you would like to receive reminders and Zoom links to the webinars.

DatePresenterTitle
September 29Peter McHenry (William and Mary University)“Enrolling in Bad Times: College Persistence and Labor Market Outcomes”
October 20Safoura Moeeni (University of Regina)“The Labor Market Returns to Unobserved Skills: Evidence from a Gender Quota”
November 17Miguel Cardoso (Brock University)“Research on Labour Market Impacts of the Temporary Foreign Worker Program”
December 15Audra Bowlus (Western University)“New Evidence on Skill Portfolio Evolution and Wages over the Lifecycle from the Canadian Longitudinal International Study of Adults”
January 12Sitian Liu (Queen’s University)“Fertility Incentives in Canada: Cash Benefits vs. Childcare Support”
January 26Eyob Fissuh (Centre for Special Business Projects, Statistics Canada)“Indicators of labour mobility in Canada for the Canada Internal Trade Data and Information Hub”
February 9Serdar Ozkan (University of Toronto)“Why Are the Wealthiest So Wealthy? A Longitudinal Empirical Investigation”
March 8Adam Levecchia (McMaster University)“Taxation and Regular Folks’ Migration: Evidence from 35 Years of Canadian Immigration Data”
April 5David Gray (University of Ottawa)“The Impact of Working While on Claim Activity on Subsequent Employment Insurance Claims Patterns”