[spa] Reformas fiscales de 1988 en Canadá y en Quebec: análisis de equilibrio general de las implicaciones para el Quebec, . por Pierre Lefebvre y Francine Meyer.. . El gobierno de Canadá y del Quebec emprendieron recientemente una revisión de considerable importancia de su régimen fiscal...

This paper analyses the national retail sales tax reform proposed in the federal government's June 1987 White Paper on Tax Reform using an applied general equilibrium model of the Quebec economy. The model evaluates the welfare effect and the incidence effects in Quebec of replacing both the...

There has been for some time substantial concern regarding the loss of young people in rural communities. There is a sense that most rural communities offer few opportunities for their younger people, requiring them to leave for urban communities, most likely not to return. While there is a...

The purpose of this paper is to examine different types of models dealing with the question of income distribution. These models can be classified into three categories: microsimulation models, computable general equilibrium models and integrated macro-distribution models. In this study, we are...

The purpose of this article is to measure the incidence of child-care financing policies for Quebec families and to evaluate the effects of the 1994 Quebec reform on the type of child care chosen. The reform had two main elements: a substantial increase in financial aid to low-income parents and...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the structure of unemployment in Quebec, in terms of duration, frequency and concentration. The methodology adopted has been developed by Clark and Summers for the United States, and used by Hasan and De Broucker for Canada. The most striking results are:...

La deperdition des jeunes des collectivites rurales cause depuis un bon moment deja bien des inquietudes. On pense generalement que la plupart des collectivites rurales offrent peu de possibilites a leurs jeunes, ce qui les oblige a partir vers les villes, vraisemblablement pour toujours. Meme...

The cost of unemployment may be broken down into two components: economic and social costs. This paper considers one aspect of social costs: the relation between unemployment and health. It makes use of panel data collected in a survey specifically designed to analyze this relation. These data...

We investigate the impact of an ambitious provincial school reform in Canada on students’ mathematical achievements. It is the first paper to exploit a universal school reform of this magnitude to identify the causal effect of a widely supported teaching approach on students’ math scores....