We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country's workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We compare these two policies under the assumptions that individuals are...

We ask which migration policy a developed country will choose when its objective is to attain the optimal skill composition of the country's workforce, and when the policy menu consists of an entry fee and a quota. We compare these two policies under the assumptions that individuals are...

This paper examines how local government planning regulations and charges affect the deployment of telecommunications infrastructure. We explore the economic rationale for local government regulation of such infrastructure, which we suggest should be based on managing negative externalities....

There has been an increasing reliance on the user-pay model to fund municipal infrastructure in Canada. User fees as a source of own-source municipal revenue have more than tripled since 1965 (Tindal et al. 2012, p. 262). However, the application of the user-pay model is constrained by two...

User fees have become increasingly relied upon by municipal governments in Canada to fund municipal services, yet little information exists about how to design and implement a user fee. This book provides a useful source of technical and non-technical guidance for Canadian municipal officials,...

Existing empirical studies of the price and quantity effects on new dwellings from developer charges (DCs), or impact fees, are limited by a lack of naturally occurring variation in the DC size. It is therefore difficult to isolate any behavioural effect from the mechanical relationship of DC...

The public finance literature tells us that user fees will introduce market-like efficiency to public good provision. Meanwhile, criminal justice scholars note that criminal justice fees have run amok, causing crippling debt, undermining reentry efforts, and raising civil rights and...