Canadian Research Data Centre Network

The Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network (CLSRN) just released a new edition of its newsletter, Labour Market Matters. Among other highlights, we’d like to point out a working paper by Craig Riddell and Xueda Song on the role of education in technology use and adoption in which they used detailed microdata from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey accessed at the BCI RDC and Toronto RDC to investigate the causal effects of workers’ educational attainment on their use and adoption of new technologies.

The most recent edition of Statistics Canada’s Health Reports is now available, featuring articles on chronic illness, mental health, assisted conception and seniors’ health.

As a result of the changing demographic profile of its population, the aging of the workforce has become a pressing issue for Canadian public policy. While the elimination of mandatory retirement in most sectors allows older workers the ability to continue working, the persistence of ageism in the workplace makes this a difficult journey for many. This policy brief prepared by Ellie Berger and Douglas Hodgins for the Population Change and Lifecourse strategic research cluster examines the prevailing attitudes toward older individuals and finds that ageism are seen in training, hiring and retention workplace policies towards older employees.

Two-thirds of the articles in September's issue of Canada's well-reputed policy research journal Canadian Public Policy are based on studies by regular RDC users:

Men with dementia are in poorer health than women with dementia, yet their caregivers – usually their wives – get fewer home services than those who care for women with dementia, according to a recent analysis of CCHS data by Dorothy Forbes and colleagues at the University of Western Ontario's School of Nursing.