The objective of this paper is to develop an index of economic weel-being for Canada for the period 1971 to 1997 using a framework originally laid out by Osberg (1985). Although the economic well-being of a society depends on the level of average consumption flows, aggregate accumulation of...

Ce document analyse l'experience canadienne actuelle des conseils sectoriels. Institutions lancees pour la premiere fois en 1982 et concue pour regrouper les interets des travailleurs et des employeurs afin de repondre aux besoins de developpement du capital humain du secteur.

This paper argues that public holidays facilitate the co-ordination of leisure time but do not constrain the annual amount of leisure. Public holidays therefore have benefits both in the utility of leisure on holidays and (by enabling people to maintain social contacts more easily) in increasing...