This paper examines how trade liberalization and fluctuations in real exchange rates affect export-market entry/exit and plant-level productivity. It uses the experience of Canadian manufacturing plants over three separate periods that featuring different rates of bilateral tariff reduction and...

The Canadian Financial Capability Survey (CFCS), released by Statistics Canada in December 2009, was designed to collect information about Canadians' knowledge, abilities, and behaviours concerning financial decision-making. In addition to information on approaches to money management and...

En depit de l'importance des regimes de pension agrees (RPA) dans les discussions sur le systeme canadien de revenu de retraite, tres peu d'etudes au Canada ont porte sur les resultats financiers des cotisants et des non-cotisants a un RPA. Le present document propose une comparaison de la...

In spite of the importance of registered pension plans (RPPs) in discussions of Canada's retirement income system, very few Canadian studies have examined the financial outcomes experienced by RPP members and RPP non-members. Using data from the Longitudinal Administrative Database (LAD), this...

L'Enquete canadienne sur les capacites financieres (ECCF), dont les donnees ont ete diffusees par Statistique Canada en decembre 2009, a ete concue pour recueillir de l'information concernant les connaissances, les capacites et les comportements des Canadiens en ce qui a trait a la prise de...

Canada and the United States have recently experienced an increase in the regional dispersion of entering immigrants. American research suggests that a mixture of economic push factors (away from states like California) and pull factors (toward states with growth of low-wage jobs), as well as...

Tant au Canada qu?aux Etats-Unis, on a constate recemment un accroissement de la dispersion regionale des nouveaux immigrants. Selon des etudes menees aux Etats-Unis, une combinaison de facteurs economiques ayant un effet d?eloignement (des Etats tels que la Californie) et de facteurs ayant un...