In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the "Action Emploi" (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE oered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...

We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...

Ce rapport présente une première version du Modèle de Micro-Simulation de l'Université Laval (SimUL) visant à simuler l'évolution de divers indicateurs reliés aux changements démographiques et aux revenus de retraite pour la période 2004-2030 au Québec. SimUL prévoit que la croissance...

We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model. The approach allows to control for group-level unobservables and to solve the reflection problem, without imposing ad hoc exclusion restrictions or requiring...