Direct measures of skill attainment, such as the International Adult Lite racy Survey, have been justified as a way to assess the relative importance of specific skills in determining labout market oucomes, but such scores are the product of complex statistical procedures, and alternative...

The objective of this paper is to develop an index of economic weel-being for Canada for the period 1971 to 1997 using a framework originally laid out by Osberg (1985). Although the economic well-being of a society depends on the level of average consumption flows, aggregate accumulation of...