In this chapter, Daniel Schwanen addresses the impact of the major trade liberalization efforts undertaken by Canada … and its trading partners beginning with the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (FTA) in 1989. The author focuses in … Canada in the 1990s. The author divides Canadian manufacturing industries into five groups according to their sensitivity to …

Productivity research is Canada has traditionally focused on narrow economic issues. In our view, it has given … Economic Performance and Social Progress is to attempt to fill, at least in part, the lacuna in the literature in Canada on … trends in Canada and OECD countries. The two papers in the second section examine the impact productivity has on government …

income security system. He concludes that on the whole the emerging post-welfare state will better serve Canada's evolving …

and graduate education have expanded dramatically, leading many more undergraduates to stay in Canada for their graduate … graduate programs, the proportion living outside Canada is and has always been high, reflecting a very international mix of … subsequently living and working in Canada, and especially in British Columbia, is much higher than the share of Canadian citizens …

can be explained by the acceptance of the federal government of the economic argument that Canada had to switch to a value …

. Scott first reviews the history of environmental policy in England, the United States and Canada. He then examines the …. The paper then compares what economists do in Canada in the environmental area compared to that in the United States …, finding that academic environmental economists in Canada specialize more in theory and show little knowledge or interest in …

Canada’s recent experience in education and skill formation. In his paper, W. Craig Riddell attempts such an assessment. He … provides a careful examination of trends in education expenditures and outcomes in Canada compared to other countries, looks at … assessment of Canada’s record in education and skills is quite positive. He finds that relative to other OECD countries, Canada …

The Impact of Interprovincial Migration on Aggregate Output and Labour Productivity in Canada, 1987-2006 …Interprovincial migration has increased significantly in Canada since 2003. This article develops a methodology to …

Canada’s living standards have been falling relative to those in the United States in recent years. The Chairman and … concepts. It then examines trends of living standards historically in Canada and the United States and in OECD countries. The …, demographic structures, labour force participation, and the unemployment rate ?in the growth of living standards in Canada and in …