LWF
Longitudinal Worker File
Description
- Nature: Longitudinal administrative database on employees.
- Usage: The structure of the LWF makes it particularly well-suited to studying labour turnover and mobility, earnings dynamics and a host of other issues.
- Content: The LWF is designed to provide information on employment dynamics in Canada. It is based on a 10% random sample of Canadian workers, and contains – on a year-by-year basis – information on their demographic characteristics, on the jobs they hold, the firms in which they work and the earnings they receive.
- Coverage period: 1983 onwards.
Papers and Publications
June, 2017
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Incomes, Industry and Firm Analysis, International, Labour Markets
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Keywords: microdata, data access
March, 2017
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Author(s)
Natalie Goodwin, Statistics Canada RDC Analyst, Western University RDC
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Keywords: RDC
Outline
Accessing business microdata for research purposes at the Canadian Centre for Data Development and Economic Research (CDER) at Statistics Canada
- CDER basics
- Data sets available for access to CDER
- Application process
- Future directions
- Other information
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ASM, ASM-I, CBSA Customs, CEEDD, CFA, CIP, LEAP, LWF, NALMF, SFSME, SIBS, T2-LEAP, TEC, WES
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Incomes, Industry and Firm Analysis, International, Labour Markets
Keywords: CDER; microdata; data access
January, 2017
Turnover within an industry creates a turbulent situation for workers, where a firm's shutdown leads to permanent layoffs. Using data drawn from the Longitudinal Worker File, a Canadian firm-worker matched employment database, we investigate the impact of industry shutdown rates on the rate of permanent layoffs and workers' wages. We quantify the effects of permanent layoffs on worker outcomes such as employment status and earnings. These effects vary across industries, firms and workers. Further, selection induces a bias in the effect of shutdown rates on permanent layoffs and wages. After accounting for firm shutdown (selection), we find that an increase in industry shutdown rates generally increases the probability of permanent layoffs and decreases workers' wages.
Paper: https://doi.org/10.1186/s40172-017-0057-0
Note: presentation is from 2014
Author(s)
Kim P. Huynh, Bank of Canada
Yuri Ostrovsky, Statistics Canada
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Industry and Firm Analysis, Labour Markets
Keywords: Worker separation, Firm survival, Selection
JEL Codes: J24; J31; J63; C35
May, 2015
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Keywords: CDER; proposal
JEL Codes: Y9
Author(s)
Kim P. Huynh works at the Bank of Canada
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Keywords: CDER; proposal; microdata
JEL Codes: Y9
November, 2012
Author(s)
Statistics Canada
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