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- Title
Labour mobility, seasonal unemployment insurance, and the Newfoundland inshore fishery.
- Authors
Ferris, J. S.; Plourde, C. G.
- Abstract
This paper considers the effects of seasonal unemployment insurance on the size and efficiency of the Newfoundland Inshore Fishery. A model of the inshore fishery is developed that focuses on some of the factors that influence the fisherman's choice between occupational alternatives. The model is then altered to incorporate the incentives introduced by the 1957 extension of the unemployment insurance program to the fishery. The analysis suggests that in the absence of resource management the ability of the program to raise per capita inshore income will be strictly temporary. Over the long run the gain will be dissipated through the scale expansion of the industry. The full model is then tested against the data available for the 1954 to 1970 time period.
- Subjects
NEWFOUNDLAND &; Labrador; CANADA; SEASONAL employment; FISHERY economics; FISHERS; LABOR mobility; ECONOMICS
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Economics, 1982, Vol 15, Issue 3, p426
- ISSN
0008-4085
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.2307/134759