This paper examines, using micro-data on the expenditures of Canadian households for 1978 and 1982, how their income, their size and make-up, their labour force participation, their place of residence and other sociodemographic characteristics (age, schooling, language, …) explain their...

This paper examines, using data from the Statistics Canada surveys of consumer finance (1981) and family expenditure (1982), the incidence by income classes of the taxes and government expenditures in Quebec for 1981. This is the first study of this topic: it shows that taxes are somewhat...

This paper examines, using the human capital framework, the relationship between family background and the knowledge of English by Quebec francophones. Using the Probit method and 1978 data we find that the level of schooling and the mother tongue of both father and mother, the occupation of the...

This paper examines the 1985 Québec taxpayers' choice as to how they completed their personal income tax returns, and quantifies the compliance costs thus incurred. The data used therein were collected at our request by surveying a représentative sample of 447 taxpayers. Our main results are:...

This paper is divided in three parts. In the first one a four-equation structural form model is offered. It has earnings, weeks worked, education and bilingualism as dependent variables and will be used to explain the earnings of Quebec males in 1978. In the second part the data used, 3,576 men...

The purpose of this paper is to review some of the recent writings in the field of growth economics to identify key factors in explaining the success or growth of nations. That done, we examine the link between these factors and the division of powers in Canada to establish, which ones should be...