. Given the easy availability of part-time employment and the high marginal tax rates, the reduction in hours worked could be …

years in the pages of F&D looks at the important links between health and economic progress. Articles range over a variety … of topics, from the Millennium Development Goals and their health-related targets for 2015 to the economics of tobacco … property aspects of health care …

increase growth and employment are studied. From a cross-country approach, this study finds a significant relationship between …

-sector employment and have helped raise standards of living. However, the growth model has involved costs: the public-sector wage bill … is relatively high, there is limited employment of nationals in the private sector, labor productivity has declined or …

This paper discusses tax and expenditure policy reforms to raise employment. Using data for 58 advanced and emerging …. The focus is on incentives to increase labor demand and supply rather than on the impact of fiscal policy on employment … principles which should guide the design of country-specific fiscal reforms to boost employment. A comprehensive set of tables on …

The issue of productivity growth in Canada has received considerable attention reflecting its marked slowdown since the … in Canada, it is useful to decompose total factor productivity (TFP) into investment-specific productivity change (ISP …) and technologically neutral productivity change (TNP). The gap in manufacturing productivity growth between Canada and the …

The paper presents Canada’s report on the Observance of Standards and Codes on the Financial Action Task Force (FATF …) recommendations for Anti-Money Laundering (AML) and Combating the Financing of Terrorism (CFT). Canada has strengthened its overall …

The spillovers from the U.S. economy to Canada have been assessed. It uses structural vector autoregressions to analyze … the role of financial linkages in real and financial spillovers from the United States to Canada. The implications of … Canada’s predictable price level have been analyzed. Innovative small and medium-size enterprises have significantly greater …

slowdown in large part has reflected the slowing in the United States economy, which has reduced growth in Canada’s exports and … growth, a softening in the employment situation, and an associated fall in consumer confidence. The slowing in economic …