The net burden of in-migrants on the population of a city is calculated in this article by multiplying the income distribution of in-migrants by an income-based per capita distribution of revenues and expenditures. A measure of the burden which compensates for different revenue-expenditure...

The purpose of this study is twofold: (1) to examine which municipal governments are net beneficiaries of the Ontario programme of intergovernmental transfers and (2) to determine whether distribution of grants equitably reflects differences amongst municipal units.

In 1914, Henri Pirenne argued that, beginning in the eleventh century, Western European capitalism can be characterized by alternating periods of laisser-faire and public control. This paper attempts to judge the validity of Pirenne's hypothesis.

Considerable attention has been focused on the relationship between transportation costs and land values in urban areas, but little research has been conducted on the other factors that affect land values. The study in this paper should concentrate on any one of a number of different types of...

This paper reports an analysis of the effect of changes in legislated minimum wages on negotiated wage increases, using micro data on Canadian labor contracts between 1966 and 1975. The analysis departs from previous studies in that it divides the sample data base into high- and low-wage...

This paper presents some results of a study which develops and tests an econometric model of the Canadian automotive manufacturing industry. Annual behaviour over the 1948-1964 period is examined by utilizing eighteen stochastic equations and four major identities. The research strategy follows...

This paper provides econometric evidence, based on 2,215 wage contracts signe d during the 1967-75 period, on the extent to which the tax increases attributable to the progressivity of the Canadian income tax system were forward shifted into higher wage settlements. Based on a wage de...