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The federal government announced in its 2012 budget its intention to delay the age of eligibility for Old Age Security and the Guaranteed Income Supplement from 65 to 67 years. By the time the policy is fully implemented (i.e., in 2030), this delay will have increased net revenues of the federal...
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We provide an analysis of the effect of physician payment methods on their hospital patients' length of stay and risk of readmission. To do so, we exploit a major reform implemented in Quebec (Canada) in 1999. The Quebec Government introduced an optional mixed compensation (MC) scheme for...
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We develop and estimate a generalized labour supply model that incorporates work effort into the standard consumption-leisure trade-off. We allow workers a choice between two contracts: a piece rate contract, wherein he is paid per unit of service provided, and a mixed contract, wherein he...
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This paper extends the standard work effort model by allowing workers to interact through networks. We investigate experimentally whether peer performances and peer contextual effects influence individual performances. Two types of network are considered. Participants in Recursive networks are...
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Les données de l'Institut canadien d'information en santé (ICIS) et le modèle de micro-simulation dynamique de SIMUL permettent à la fois de projeter les dépenses en santé du Québec jusqu'en 2030 et d'en évaluer l'importance par rapport au PIB et aux revenus de l'État. Un scénario...
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We provide the first empirical application of a new approach proposed by Lee (2007) to estimate peer effects in a linear-in-means model when individuals interact in groups. Assuming sufficient group size variation, this approach allows to control for correlated effects at the group level and to...
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Nous estimons les effets de pairs et le multiplicateur social dans la décision des entreprises de s'adonner à la fraude sociale (cotisations de sécurité sociale non déclarées et dissimulation de salariés). Les données proviennent d'une enquête menée pour 2009 par l'Agence centrale des...
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Ce rapport présente les résultats préliminaires d'une première version du Modèle de Micro-Simulation de l'Université Laval (SimUL), portant sur l'évolution de divers indicateurs sociaux et de mesures de niveaux de vie pour la période 2004-2030. Cette évolution est largement tributaire...
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Le gouvernement fédéral a annoncé dans son dernier budget son intention de reporter l'âge d'admissibilité aux prestations de la Sécurité de la Vieillesse et de Supplément de Revenu Garanti de 65 à 67 ans. À terme (c'est-à-dire, en 2030), ce report devrait augmenter les revenus nets du...
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This paper aims at opening the black box of peer effects in adolescent weight gain. Using Add Health data on secondary schools in the U.S., we investigate whether these effects partly flow through the eating habits channel. Adolescents are assumed to interact through a friendship social network....
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