Acknowledgements
The Small Area and Administrative Data Division of Statistics Canada provided access to, and support of, the Longitudinal Administrative Databank (LAD) data upon which the study is based. The author also gratefully acknowledges a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Research Grant which was critical in earlier stages of research with the LAD data. Helpful feedback was received from Michael Hatfield and Allen Zeesman throughout the project. Extremely useful written comments on the complete text were received from Sheldon Danziger, Martin Dooley, and Bill Robson, while Lars Osberg provided other helpful suggestions at the Canadian Employment Research Forum conference in Vancouver in June 2000, and John Richards offered suggestions regarding the policy implications of the analysis. Roger Sceviour provided truly excellent research assistance.