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On May 31, 1994, Parliament adopted Bill C-17, enacting a number of changes to the Canadian Unemployment Insurance (UI) system, effective on July 3, 1994. These changes, while less publicized, and less hotly contested than those in some other recent changes to the UI system (for example, 1993's Bill C-113, or the system's more recent conversion to "employment insurance"), enacted probably the most dramatic cuts in UI eligibility since the system was first introduced. In which provinces and industries were workers most affected by these cuts? Were men or women more affected? And to what extent were workers able to mitigate the effects of the cuts by changing their employment and job search behaviour? These are the questions addressed in this report for the regular UI program.

Section 2 of the report describes the main policy changes brought about by Bill C-17. Section 3 describes the data and methodology we use to analyse the effects of Bill C-17. Sections 4 and 5 present our estimates of the effects of C-17 on two main outcomes respectively: workers' UI entitlements (given a worker loses a job, or starts a UI claim, how many weeks of UI benefits can he or she can count on?) and workers' actual receipt of UI (how many weeks of benefits do workers actually draw?). Conclusions are summed up in a final section.