The objective is to explore the correlational structure of government activity variables. By using principal components analysis with data from eighteen OECD countries (averaged between 1971-85) and variables which reflect the size of government, it is concluded that the controversy over the use...

This paper examines how NIT payments might destabilize marriages by enhancing the economic quality of alternatives to married life. Data from Canada's MINCOME experiment indicates that the various levels of GAI support did have a stabilizing influence on its participants' marriages. This...

This article reviews research from the five income-maintenance experiments in Canada and the United States. After sketching the historical and political context of the experiments, the authors compare their designs and discuss some important analytic difficulties. Their primary focus is the...

Immigrants differ from the native born in terms of unobserved factors, such as motivation, and observed factors, including those related to the interruption of labour market activity and earning capacity, which may bias estimates of immigrant integration. Using panel data from the Survey of...

We compare the retirement prospects of immigrant men with their native-born counterparts. Using data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, we estimate a significant gap of 43 percent in private pension income and 30 percent in private pension contributions between immigrants and the...