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Sectoral Shifts and Canadian Unemployment

Neelin, Janet - Industrial Relations Section, Department of Economics - 1985

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Ottawa's Pension Abyss: The Rapid Hidden Growth of Federal-Employee Retirement Liabilities

Robson, William - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 370

As Canadians saving for retirement are becoming painfully aware, rates of return on investment are much lower than they used to be. As a result, providing a given income in retirement now requires much more saving. Low returns are depressing incomes from RRSPs and defined-contribution pension...

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Seeking Financial Stability: The Best Role for the Bank of Canada

Crow, John - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 369

focus here is on the best role for the Bank of Canada in light of its monetary responsibilities. It emphasizes that through …

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Hiding in Plain Sight: The Harmful Impact of Provincial Business Property Taxes

Found, Adam; Tomlinson, Peter - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 368

When governments analyze tax policies aimed at attracting investment, they typically rely on a variable called the marginal effective tax rate (METR) on capital. The METR is a measure of the effective tax burden on new business investment. Recent Ontario budgets have presented estimates of the...

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Sample Attrition in the Canadian Survey of Labor and Income Dynamics

Boudarbat, Brahim; Grenon, Lee - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

This paper provides an analysis of the effects of attrition and non-response on employment and wages using the Canadian Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. We consider a structural model composed of three freely correlated equations for non-attrition/response, employment and wages. The model...

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What is Most Important: Social Factors, Health Selection, and Adolescent Educational Achievement

Roos, Leslie; Hiebert, Brett; Manivong, Phongsack; … - In: Social Indicators Research 110 (2013) 1, pp. 385-414

in Manitoba, Canada between 1982 and 1989 and remaining in the province until age 18. Multilevel modeling nests each …

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Learning Democracy Through Food Justice Movements

Levkoe, Charles - In: Agriculture and Human Values 23 (2006) 1, pp. 89-98

Over time, the corporate food economy has led to the increased separation of people from the sources of their food and nutrition. This paper explores the opportunity for grassroots, food-based organizations, as part of larger food justice movements, to act as valuable sites for countering the...

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Linking future population food requirements for health with local production in Waterloo Region, Canada

Desjardins, Ellen; MacRae, Rod; Schumilas, Theresa - In: Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2010) 2, pp. 129-140

improve population health as well as the local food economy. This case study of Waterloo Region (WR), Canada, had two …

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The motives, benefits, and problems of conversion to organic production

Cranfield, John; Henson, Spencer; Holliday, James - In: Agriculture and Human Values 27 (2010) 3, pp. 291-306

Using data from a survey of certified organic or in-transition to organic vegetable and dairy producers in Canada, we … suggest that the motives underlying transition have not changed overtime in Canada. Problems experienced during transition … overcome fundamental marketing problems and challenges. Promulgation of the Canada Organic standard may help address some …

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Land tenure and agricultural management: Soil conservation on rented and owned fields in southwest British Columbia

Fraser, Evan - In: Agriculture and Human Values 21 (2004) 1, pp. 73-79

According to literature,insecure land tenure biases against soilconservation on farmland. However, there islittle evidence to test whether farmers need toown their land to conserve it, or if long-termleases are adequate. One way to infer whetheror not different land tenure arrangementspromote...

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