In the early 1990s, observers of the labour market often pointed to emerging new phenomena. How many of these trends have survived the strong economic expansion of 1997 to 1999? The rise of self-employment, which was thought to result from a decline in full-time paid employment, has continued...

Performance measures are being actively developed in Canada at both the federal and provincial government levels to improve the performance of the public sector and to achieve greater accountability. One important source of friction in discussions of performance measurement in the public sector...

This paper discusses how these initiatives have laid the foundation for a new approach to Canadian social policy that supports the economic health of the nation and is based on careful research and evaluation of observable outcomes

This study draws attention to empirical evidence for the United Kingdom and Canada rejecting the separability of household commodity demands from labor supply. As might be anticipated on the basis of these rejections, using Canadian data, we find clear patterns in the average expenditure shares...

This paper considers the treatment of endogenous explanatory variables in the work of the Cowles Commission and in Carl Christ's classic 1966 textbook, and certain problems that arise when this approach is followed in areas such as the study of female labor supply where a prior knowledge is...

This is a survey of applied econometric research on the effects of children on female labor supply. Reasons for interest in the topic, and a basic model and terminology, are reviewed. Concerns are raised about the possible endogeneity of child status variables, and about the instrumental...