reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …-pillar metaphor is still a fruitful perspective because it facilitates constructive responses to the pressures confronting Canada … policy”. Based on his examination of Canada’s pension and health-care systems, Robson makes a number of recommendations …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … universal medicare. Osberg also finds that relative to the United States, Sweden and the United Kingdom, Canada has done the … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in …

hitherto unexploited data from Statistics Canada’s Survey of Consumer Spending to examine the financial circumstances of the … elderly and discusses the implications for the design of Canada’s retirement income system. Hamilton notes that there are five …

researchers on productivity issues, trends and developments in Canada and other countries. The Monitor will also serve as a … eight articles on a wide range of productivity topics. There are the new economy and trend productivity growth in Canada …, the renaissance of service sector productivity in the United States, a regional comparison of U.S-Canada standards of …

According to data collected by the Association of Workers’ Compensation Boards of Canada, 1,097 workplace fatalities … were recorded in Canada in 2005, up from 758 in 1993. As Canadians work on average 230 days per year, this means that there …

Canada. It discusses key productivity concepts, looks at current productivity trends, examines the forces affecting future … productivity growth, and reviews productivity projections in Canada and the United States. The second section discusses the …

James E. Pesando looks at the 1998 package of reforms to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) that the federal government and … States. He expects that the issue will soon resurface in Canada and that policy options like benefit reductions, raising the …