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...

Understanding health care utilization is important to design efficient and effective health systems. Toward this end, we develop a relatively simple and intutively appealing microeconometric framework to analyse health care utilization and illustrate its use with recent Canadian microdata. We...

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...