This paper discusses how central banking is evolving in light of recent experience, with particular emphasis on the incorporation of uncertainty into policy decision-making. The sort of post-crisis uncertainty that central banks are dealing with today is more profound than that which is...

The payments landscape in Canada is rapidly changing and will continue to evolve, fuelled by strong and persistent drivers. In Canada, the Canadian Payments Association (CPA) is on a path to modernize Canada's core payment systems. This paper contributes to the discussion in three ways. First,...

(English Abstract Follows) La manière dont le marché du travail s’ajuste au choc démographique est au centre des préoccupations des politiques du marché du travail. En effet, le vieillissement de la population pourrait affecter la capacité de l’économie à s’ajuster, non seulement...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the school-to-work transition process of young Canadians, particularly individuals with low levels of education, and to situate it in the context of the evolution in the value of a high school diploma over the 1981-1996 period, conditional on not...

This paper analyzes the evolution of the labour market participation rate of men and women age 15 to 24 from 1976 to 1998. The0501n question being asked is why youth participation rates fell precipitously during the 1990s? We look at two dimensions of this decline: changes in the participation...

Texte en hommage à François Sellier - chercheur au LEST. En tant qu'économiste, François Sellier s'est toujours intéressé à la question du salaire qui ne renvoie pas, à ses yeux, simplement à la fonction de production, mais apparaît fondamentale pour la reproduction de la société. Le...

Ce papier étudie les conséquences des changements dans les opportunités scolaires sur plusieurs définitions des inégalités sur le marché du travail au Brésil sur deux décennies. En utilisant quatre éditions de l’enquête nationale représentative PNAD, nous analysons l’évolution...

The organisation of research is a powerful factor structuring the labour market for recent doctorate recipients. The queue for permanent research positions in the academic sector has created a specific labour market for young doctorates, characterised by a proliferation of postdoctoralprogrammes...