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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 …

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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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An Index of Labour Market Well-being for OECD Countries

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

This report’s objective is the construction of an index of labour market well-being that is capable of measuring the well-being that individuals in a given society at a given point in time can obtain through the labour market. Besides considering simply the average return from working, workers...

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The Impact of the National Child Benefit Supplement on the Low Income Status of Canadian Families with Children: The SPSD/M Results

Standards, Centre for the Study of Living - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2002

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …

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Deficit Elimination, Economic Performance and Social Progress in Canada in the 1990s

Drummond, Don - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Don Drummond makes the case that with large deficits there was little room for the Bank of Canada to … argues that the elimination of the deficit has reduced risk premia and allowed the Bank of Canada to bring interest rates …

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Interest Rates, Unemployment and Inflation in the 1990s: The Canadian Experience

Fortin, Pierre - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior economic performance of the Canadian economy relative to the U ….S. economy squarely on the back of the Bank of Canada, and dismisses structural explanations of the recession as lacking an …

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Decline in Youth Participation in Canada in the 1990s: Structural or Cyclical?

Archambault, Richard; Grignon, Louis - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

is essential to an overall understanding of the fall in labour force participation in the 1990s in Canada. In the fifth … labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. They disaggregate the youth participation rate into three components: the …

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Distributional Outcomes in Canada During the 1990s

Heisz, Andrew; Jackson, Andrew; Picot, Garnett - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

distributional changes that have occurred in Canada in the 1990s as well as useful comparative perspectives both in terms of trends … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

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Monetary Policy and the Economic Well-being of Canadians

Jenkins, Paul; O'Reilly, Brian - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

links between monetary policy and the economic well-being of Canadians. The Bank of Canada economists do admit that tight …

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Six Pillars of Social Policy: The State of Pensions and Health Care in Canada

Robson, William B. P. - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …-pillar metaphor is still a fruitful perspective because it facilitates constructive responses to the pressures confronting Canada … policy”. Based on his examination of Canada’s pension and health-care systems, Robson makes a number of recommendations …

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