policy”. Based on his examination of Canada’s pension and health-care systems, Robson makes a number of recommendations … survey of the state of Canadian economic policy in the areas of pensions and health care. He argues that it is appropriate to … reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …

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 …

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 …

the health-productivity relationship with an emphasis on the public policy implications. This relationship goes well … beyond the obvious effect of health on capacity to work both in terms of energy level and working time. Focusing on the … Grossman model, the author describes three additional pathways through which health can affect productivity at an aggregate …

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

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 …

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 …

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 …