[spa] Reformas fiscales de 1988 en Canadá y en Quebec: análisis de equilibrio general de las implicaciones para el Quebec, . por Pierre Lefebvre y Francine Meyer.. . El gobierno de Canadá y del Quebec emprendieron recientemente una revisión de considerable importancia de su régimen fiscal...

The cost of unemployment may be broken down into two components: economic and social costs. This paper considers one aspect of social costs: the relation between unemployment and health. It makes use of panel data collected in a survey specifically designed to analyze this relation. These data...

We investigate the impact of an ambitious provincial school reform in Canada on students’ mathematical achievements. It is the first paper to exploit a universal school reform of this magnitude to identify the causal effect of a widely supported teaching approach on students’ math scores....

This study traces the evolution of the returns to education for young Canadians, classified by very detailed education groups, gender, and province from 1990 to 2005, using large samples from the analytical census files. We find that the growth of returns for higher education for young adults...

In recent years, issue of automobile insurance has required governments to make fundamental and controversial choices. In Quebec, the 1979 automobile insurance reform introduced a universial no-fault regime. There is no overall assessment of the consequences of this reform. However, an analysis...

This paper shows that a temporary incentive to join the labor market or to work more can also produce substantial life-cycle labour supply effects. On September 1997, a new childcare policy was initiated by the provincial government of Québec, the second most populous province in Canada....