The issues which confront government in developed countries like Canada concerning the choice between trade or protection are related to concerns in three distinct, yet inter-connected areas, namely: international development, national industrial development, and political exigencies and...

This study concentrates on the adjustment costs of laying off workers from firm which are forced to reduce production and employment. Both the private income losses to the displaced workers and the cost to the economy of labour displacement are examined. The costs of adjustment for displaced...

HID has been active in the area of tax reform for the past twenty years. This work began in 1975, with a study of mineral taxation in Bolivia and has continued through projects in a wide range of countries including: Indonesia ( mining taxation, 1976-1997, comprehensive tax reform, 1981-1986,...

This study examines the employment experience of workers in Canada who were unemployed at some point during the period 1972 through 1979. The employment-unemployment experience of workers over this eight-year period was derived from a data base constructed from the one-in-ten sample of the...

This study examines the durations of unemployment and employment for those in Canada who experience some unemployment between 1972 and 1979. This analysis was carried out using the UIC-ROE data base developed from the administrative records of the Unemployment Insurance Commission. This data...

This paper provides an overview of labour adjustments situations in Canada, the incentives to adjust from the perspective of the workers and the costs and benefits to the economy of different labour adjustment problems and policies. Conceptual models and estimation procedures for arriving at the...

While employment policy in Canada has on specific occasions undertaken varied tasks, three principal objectives have consistently been part of the Canadian Government’s policy over the past three decades. First, there has been a commitment to maintaining a low rate of unemployment. Second,...

In this study we examine the unemployment experience of workers who became unemployed during the period 1972 through 1979 in the 19 regions across the country, a group that represents about 58 per cent of the Canadian labour force. The employment/unemployment experience of workers over this...

The analysis of the relationship of the average durations of employment and unemployment spells across labor force participants over an extended period is used to study the long-run structure of unemployment. Based on this relationship, how the unemployment rates of individuals vary with their...

This article provides an overview of the taxation of foreign source income in Canada, the United States and Mexico and provides some empirical estimates as an example of the relative impact of a series of changes in Canadian taxation of foreign source income on (a) the change in the Canadian tax...