This paper seeks to identify the source of the persistent gap between Canadian and US unemployment rates and why the gap has widened more for women than for men. A graphical method is proposed to distinguish between employment shocks and changes in the activity rate. The labor market is also...

Nous mesurons ý l'aide du DEA (Data Envelopment Analysis) l'efficacitÈ des caisses populaires acadiennes en utilisant la valeur des produits d'intermÈdiation ainsi que le nombre de transactions rÈalisÈes par chaque caisse entre 1997 et 2000, au moment où un important programme de fusions...

Cyclical, policy changes, and structural factors have been put forward to explain the decline in labour force participation in Canada in the 1990s. In the first article in the symposium, Pierre Fortin and Mario Fortin attempt to determine the relative importance of these three types of factors...

The tax system implicitly subsidizes owner-occupants by not taxing the imputed rent produced by the housing capital as well as the capital gain realized on owner-occupied houses. The renters also benefit from the tax system due to the lower tax rate on capital gain and to the capital cost...

This paper is concerned with bootstrap hypothesis testing in high dimensional linear regression models. Using a theoretical framework recently introduced by Anatolyev (2012), we show that bootstrap F, LR and LM tests are asymptotically valid even when the numbers of estimated parameters and...

This paper develops an extension of the recursive core to the setting of overlapping coalitions. We show that the cooperative game theoretical traditional way of separating a deviant coalition from the game played by the ones left behind is no more satisfactory. We therefore introduce a new...

Biotechnology is still in the early stage of development. It offers a window of opportunity for emerging developing countries catching up. Scientific research and industrial applications of biotechnology in China have been rapidly developing. The paper examines whether Chinese biotechnology is...