In most academic circles, inquiring into the value and/or success of education has been considered akin to questioning motherhood. Economic research on the "value"of education has centred largely on two issues; the first one being human capital theory and the structure of earnings, and the...

The adverse reaction to the Economic Council's proposal last year to increase tuition fees for higher education was not surprising. Students in post-secondary institutions, and the families of which they are part, comprise a significant and growing proportion of the Canadian population. Recent...

The adverse reaction to the Economic Council's proposal last year to increase tuition fees for higher education was not surprising. Students in post-secondary institutions, and the families of which they are part, comprise a significant and growing proportion of the Canadian population. Recent...

The purpose of ths paper is to present a set of estimates designed to measure the economic impact of the Agreement on the Canadian automotive manufacturing industry. This modest objective not only totally ignores the impact of the agreement on the United States industry, it also ignoresthe...

The concept of stable Phillips curves and their economic implications have been the subject of a series of disputes in recent years. Since Phillips introduced his simple disequilibrium model,empirical research in the field of wage determination has indicated a wide spectrum of explanatory...

Economists are frequently compelled to use data which take inappropriate forms. One particular deficiency is discussed in the paper below; namely, the prior adjustment of economic time-series by moving average transformations. This discussion is restricted to regression analyses and data which...

The errors in the linear models which are used so widely by economists may be generated by mixed moving-average autoregressive processes. If errors on an aggregative equation are generated by a mixed moving-average autoregressive process and the weights of the moving-average component of this...