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Grady, Patrick; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Festschrift literally means “celebration-writing” in German. And that is what this volume is. It celebrates the remarkable career of David Slater, which in the best Queen’s University tradition of John Deutsch and Clifford Clark spanned academia and public service, on the occasion of his...

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David W. Slater: An Economist for All Seasons

Grady, Patrick - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

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Strategic Interaction in Local Fiscal Policy: Evidence from Portuguese Municipalities

Silva, Hélia; Veiga, Linda Gonçalves; Portela, Miguel - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2011

This paper aims at testing the degree of interaction between Portuguese municipalities’ expenditure levels by estimating a dynamic panel model, based on jurisdictional reaction functions. The analysis is performed for all 278 Portuguese mainland municipalities from 1986 to 2006, using...

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Lars Osberg and Andrew Sharpe provide an overview of trends in a number of dimensions of economic well-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a new composite measure of economic...

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Elasticities of Regional and Local Administrations Expenditures - the Portuguese case

Mourão, Paulo Reis - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2005

This work analyses the evolution of real public expenditures of local and regional administrations (LRA), in Portugsl, in the period after the Second World War. It also aims to estimate the elasticities associated to determinants, which explain the found growth. As most relevant results, it is...

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Asymmetry of Shocks and Convergence in Selected Asean Countries: A Dynamic Analysis

Cortinhas, Carlos - Núcleo de Investigação em Políticas Económicas … - 2006

degree of convergence could be identified over time, distinguishing between a country’s convergence with a regional partner … and a more general trend of convergence with the rest of the world. The results showed that in the majority of cases there … has been an increase in the degree of convergence of demand shocks in recent years. More importantly, it also showed an …

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Economic Activity of the On-Reserve Aboriginal Identity Population in Canada: Gross Domestic Product Estimates for Indian Reserves, 2000 and 2005

Tsiroulnitchenko, Evguenia; Hazell, Elspeth - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2011

This report develops estimates of Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for reserves in Canada by estimating total earnings for reserves and multiplying these results by the national share of total earnings in income-based GDP. Two estimation approaches are used in the analysis. The first, which is the...

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The Potential Contribution of Aboriginal Canadians to Labour Force, Employment, Productivity and Output Growth in Canada, 2001-2017

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-Francois; Lapointe, Simon - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2007

Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. This report estimates the potential benefit for the Canadian economy of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians. We find that increasing the number of...

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Investing in Aboriginal Education in Canada: An Economic Perspective

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2010

The objective of this paper is to summarize the research done by the Centre for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) on the economic impacts of improving levels of Aboriginal education. Improving the social and economic well-being of the Aboriginal population is not only a moral imperative; it is...

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