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Estimating the Impact of the Québec’s Work Incentive Program on Labour Supply: An Ex Post Microsimulation Analysis

Moffette, Fanny; Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Richard, Patrick; … - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2013

In 2005, a wage subsidy program was established in Québec to encourage low-income individuals, particularly recipients of social assistance, to work, by offering them fiscal relief. We analyse the effect of this program (the Prime au travail) with a microsimulation model which determines the...

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Household Demand for Water: Some Further Evidence

Vaillancourt, F.; Cloutier, N.; Bastien, E. - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 1979

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Ein Strassenverkehrsnachfragemodell Fur Die Bundesrepublik Deutschland

Foos, G.; Gaudry, M.J.I. - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 1986

We Develop a Model of the Demand for Gasoline in West Germany. Explanatory Variables Belong to Seven Principal Classes … Until December 1983 Permit the Use of Two Dozen Explanatory Variables. the Results Are Presented in Elasticity Format for …

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Trio an Iteractive Graphic System for Demand Model Estimation.

Babin, A.; Dagenais, M.G.; Florian, M. - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 1986

This Article Gives a Summary Description of Trio, an Interactive Graphic Program Developed for the Formulation and Simulation of Regression Models Belonging to Three Broad Classes and the Analysis of and Reporting on Data and Model Results. the General Design of the Data Bank and the Structure...

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Labour Supply, Work Effort and Contract Choice: Theory and Evidence on Physicians

Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; Shearer, Bruce - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010

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...

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The Labour Market in CGE Models

Boeters, Stefan; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2011

This chapter reviews options of labour market modelling in a CGE framework. On the labour supply side, two principal modelling options are distinguished and discussed: aggregated, representative households and microsimulation based on individual household data. On the labour demand side, we...

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Physicians' Multitasking and Incentives: Empirical Evidence from a Natural Experiment

Dumont, Etienne; Fortin, Bernard; Jacquemet, Nicolas; … - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2007

We analyse how physicians respond to contractual changes and incentives within a multitasking environment. In 1999 the Quebec government (Canada) introduced an optional mixed compensation system, combining a fixed per diem with a discounted (relative to the traditional fee-for-service system)...

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MODÈLE DYNAMIQUE EN PRÉSENCE DE BIAIS DE SÉLECTION ET D’HÉTÉROGÉNÉITÉ INOBSERVÉE : APPLICATION À LA PARTICIPATION DES FEMMES SUR LE MARCHÉ DU TRAVAIL AU CANADA

Fortin, Mario; Doyon, Michael - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2008

’hétérogénéité individuelle inobservée et de biais de sélection dans la modélisation, peut conduire à une estimation biaisée et non convergente … des paramètres d’intérêt. Afin de corriger ces problèmes, Kyriazidou (2001) propose une estimation en deux étapes, tenant …. Dans un premier temps, une estimation convergente des paramètres inconnus de l’équation de participation au marché du …

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Firm-Sponsored Classroom Training: is it Worth it for Older Workers ?

Dostie, Benoit; Léger, Pierre Thomas - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2011

We use longitudinal linked employer-employee data and find that the probability of participating in firm-sponsored classroom training diminishes rapidly for workers aged 45 years and older. Although the standard human capital investment model predicts such a decline, we also consider the...

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Attribution of Pension Fund Surpluses: an Economic Perspective.

Ascah, L. - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 1991

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