Three commonly used measures of the impact of public spending yield conflicting results: one suggests that the public sector should be small, another that it should be large, and the third that it does not matter. Here, we avoid the problems of each approach by formulating a model in which the...

This article refers to a LISREL specification to study empirically the determinants of job mobility in Quebec. A LISREL approach is particularly useful for a system of simultaneous equations with latent variables. The industry level data used in this study are for 1982 and combine various...

From a survey of graduating students at five secondary schools of Casablanca, this article analyzes their intention to pursue university studies and their preferences for the existing fields of concentration. The study shows how elements of motivation and constraints explain their choices and...

The CANDIDE model referring to the traditional stock adjustment model to specify its inventory investment equations, the comment stresses the difficulty of that kind of model to explain and predict correctly the behaviour of inventory holdings. After pointing out the incredible loan adjustment...

In this article, we introduce group effects to explain the determinants of wages. We present three models: two models are error component models, specifically a statistical version of the Mincerian model and a microeconomic version of the Lucas (1988) model, and a model of the diffusion of...

In this text, we apply time series techniques (Box-Tiao) to isolate the influence of the Parti québécois' electoral win of November 1976 on the financial and economic costs of the Québec government borrowings.

Six months after a student ceases being enrolled full-time in an educational institution, a loan contracted with the Canada student loans program is said to be consolidated and its repayment is expected. Many ex-students will repay their loan in total (capital and interest) within a ten-year...

Since the eighties, wage inequalities have dramatically widened to the benefit of skilled workforce. The rapid diffusion of information technologies constitutes a major candidate for explaining this evolution. Empirical evidence has established the existence of a wage premium for the new...