This paper examines the effects of changes in Canadian immigration policy on the occupational composition of immigration. The authors focus on 1967 changes that created a regulatory system, including the point system, that still forms the framework of Canadian immigration policy. They find that...

This paper tests a simple macro model for an open economy over 1926-1939 for Canada and Australia. A component analysis of annual changes in real income for the two countries is presented using the residuals from the estimated equations (consumption, exports and imports) plus annual changes in...

De nombreuses comparaisons historiques de la productivite internationale sont fondees sur des mesures de la productivite du travail (production par travailleur). Les differences de productivite du travail peuvent tenir a des differences d'efficacite technique ou d'intensite capitalistique....

Many historical comparisons of international productivity use measures of labour productivity (output per worker). Differences in labour productivity can be caused by differences in technical efficiency or differences in capital intensity. Moving to measures of total factor productivity allows...

We examine the economic goals of current immigration policy and what role immigration should play in overall economic policy. We proceed by describing the economic goals of immigration policy throughout this century. We then describe current economically targeted elements of immigration policy...