This paper is divided in three parts. In the first one a four-equation structural form model is offered. It has earnings, weeks worked, education and bilingualism as dependent variables and will be used to explain the earnings of Quebec males in 1978. In the second part the data used, 3,576 men...

This paper examines, using data from the Statistics Canada surveys of consumer finance (1981) and family expenditure (1982), the incidence by income classes of the taxes and government expenditures in Quebec for 1981. This is the first study of this topic: it shows that taxes are somewhat...