Research reports
Employment and Social Development Canada (ESDC) produces objective research studies in support of its policy development work.
- Canadian Indicators for the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD)
- Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) Research Program – Synthesis – 2017 to 2022
- The Work Integration Social Enterprises (WISE) Phase II Research Program – Social Purpose Organizations Serving Black and Other Racialized Groups in Work Integration
- 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
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
- Work Integration Social Enterprise Research Program, 2017 to 2022
- Factors associated with leaving the workforce in Canada
Income security and social development
- Adapting a vulnerability lens in the crisis response
- Canada Child Benefit – Family expenditures and consumption impacts
- Anti-poverty effect of employment insurance program
- Indigenous homelessness
- Retirement age reform
- Community impact investment organizations
- Defining investment readiness
- Environmental scan of the impacts for persons with disabilities
- Housing models for seniors
- Intersectional discrimination and aging
- Profile of individuals at risk of persistent poverty
- Structural characteristics of quality child care services
- Use of child care by families with multiple children
- Use of non-parental child care in the evenings and/or on weekends
- Unlicensed home-based child care providing businesses in Canada
- Mothers' return to work and child care arrangements after parental leave
- The business dynamics of self employed child care service providers
- Canada country background report
- Analysis of the impact of alternative childcare policies
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
- Understanding adult learners in employment transitions
- Education and training experiences of Indigenous People
- Exploring an automatic enrolment model to the Canada Learning Bond
- 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
- Impact of Skills on Earnings and Education
- 10-Year Outcomes of Secondary School Students
- Indigenous Students’ Access to Post-Secondary Education
- Access to Student Financial Assistance for Adult Learners
- The Immediate Impacts of COVID-19 on Post-Secondary Students in Canada
Service
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