The importance of a focus on mobility and the kilometres travelled using light duty vehicles is reflected in the persistence of strong demand for personal mobility and emissions that tend to be linked with population and economic growth. Simulation results using the WITCH model show that changes...

This paper investigates the role of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) protection and Environmental Policies (EPs) on clean (renewable) and dirty (fossil-based) technology diffusion from top-innovators. IPR protection and EPs are extensively debated policy tools, as IPR protection addresses...

Des changements fondamentaux ont pris place dans le marche du travail et au sein des entreprises au cours des annees 1980 et 1990. Dans certains cas, on comprend ce qui s'est produit, sans toutefois en connaitre les causes. Dans d'autres cas, on ne dispose pas des donnees qui permettraient de...

Le vieillissement de la population canadienne est un phenomene largement admis et qui beneficie d'une enorme attention de la part des chercheurs etudiant les politiques, dans les domaines de la sante et des pensions de l'Etat en particulier. Tres peu de travaux d'etude ont ete jusqu'ici axes sur...

Discussions over tropical deforestation are currently at the forefront of climate change policy negotiations at national, regional, and international levels. This paper analyzes the effects of linking Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Forest Degradation (REDD) to a global market for...

Fundamental changes have taken place in the labour market and among firms in the 1980s and 1990s. In some cases we understand what has occurred, but notwhy. In other cases the data do not exist to shed light on exactly what is happening, let alone why. Changes in the labour market are often...

The aging of the Canadian population is a well recognized phenomenon and has received considerable policy research attention, particularly in the health and public pension domains. Very little work has been focused on the impacts of aging at the organizational level. Foot and Venne studied the...