The purpose of this article is to measure the incidence of child-care financing policies for Quebec families and to evaluate the effects of the 1994 Quebec reform on the type of child care chosen. The reform had two main elements: a substantial increase in financial aid to low-income parents and...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the structure of unemployment in Quebec, in terms of duration, frequency and concentration. The methodology adopted has been developed by Clark and Summers for the United States, and used by Hasan and De Broucker for Canada. The most striking results are:...

La deperdition des jeunes des collectivites rurales cause depuis un bon moment deja bien des inquietudes. On pense generalement que la plupart des collectivites rurales offrent peu de possibilites a leurs jeunes, ce qui les oblige a partir vers les villes, vraisemblablement pour toujours. Meme...

The cost of unemployment may be broken down into two components: economic and social costs. This paper considers one aspect of social costs: the relation between unemployment and health. It makes use of panel data collected in a survey specifically designed to analyze this relation. These data...

In 2000, the OECD began the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA), a triennial survey of the knowledge and skills of 15-year-olds. For each survey, Canadian students placed well above the OECD average and remain among the top performers for each domain assessed (reading, math and...

Québec's students at the secondary level have always been considered as a relatively performing group on the basis of their mean scores in international skills tests (reading, math, sciences) such as PISA, and TIMSS. It is less known that students' performance in private schools, where a...