This paper presents a labour income based measure of Canada's human capital stock from 1971 to 1996 based on the completion of education levels and the number of years of working experience. Unlike measures of human capital based on average years of schooling, this measure does not assume that...

This paper compares the health status of immigrants and their utilization rates of health services to those of the Canadian-born population using data contained within two cycles (1985 and 1991) of the General Social Survey (GSS). Our main results show that neither the health status of...