We investigate the impact of Canada's means-tested and universal public pension programs on the mortality rates of age groups eligible for pension benefits for the period 1921-1966. We find that only the universal program significantly reduced pension eligible age group mortality rates. The...

Analysis of real wages for three occupations in 13 Canadian cities for 1901-50 suggests Canada had a national labour market at least until 1950. However, analysis of real wages for 10 Canadian cities for 1971-2000 yields little evidence favouring integration of Canada's regional labour markets....

The feasibility of a monetarist policy rule has been the subject of a good deal of research, all of which has implicitly assumed a unitary state. In this paper, the question is reexamined for the case of a federal state with deficit-financing nonfederal governments. The results of the paper...