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    The impact of cohort size on labour force participation
    (University of New Brunswick, 2017) Qiu, Kangyu; Yu, Weiqiu
    Due to the baby boom in the 1950’s, decreasing birth rate after the baby boom and long-run decreasing mortality rates, the cohort size of each age group around the world has changed considerably during the past three decades. Fair and Dominguez (1991) explored the effects of cohort size on labour force participation in the United States and found that the relationship between cohort size and labour force participation is positive for men and negative for women. This report adopts a similar approach and uses long panel data set to examine the relationship between cohort size and labour force participation from 1983 to 2015 in Canada. Results show that cohort size has effects on the labour force participation for some cohorts.