The State of Economics in Canada: Festschrift in Honour of David SlaterAndrew Sharpe, Patrick Grady, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University (Kingston, Ont.). School of Policy Studies, Centre for the Study of Living Standards McGill-Queen's University Press, 2001 - 517 pages Each article in this collection addresses a particular field or issue in the discipline of economics and surveys the state of knowledge in this area in Canada, pointing out gaps in the knowledge base and directions for future research. Contributors include Richard Bird (University of Toronto), Robin Boadway (Queen's University), Paul Davenport (University of Western Ontario), Pierre Fortin (University of Quebec at Montreal), Fred Gorbet (York University), Morley Gunderson (University of Toronto), John Helliwell (University of British Columbia), Peter Howitt (Brown University), Katie Macmillan (ITPC), Jack Mintz (C.D. Howe Institute), Ed Nuefeld, Charles Beach (Queen's University), Lars Osberg (Dalhousie University), Sylvia Ostry (University of Toronto), Jim Pesando (CPP-PG), Craig Riddell (University of British Columbia), John Sargent (Department of Finance), Tony Scott (University of Toronto), Michael Smart (University of Toronto), and Tom Wilson (University of Toronto). |
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... Employment Insurance , in contrast , are still near cyclical highs and are likely to decrease in future , a net ... employment . In the simplest terms , a payroll tax reduces employers ' demand for labour , which may result in a fall in ...
... Employment Insurance , in contrast , are still near cyclical highs and are likely to decrease in future , a net ... employment . In the simplest terms , a payroll tax reduces employers ' demand for labour , which may result in a fall in ...
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... employment , they act as lump - sum taxes , with no impact on the return to additional hours worked . Coupled with the evidence on wage and employment effects cited above , this suggests that the current structure of payroll taxes may ...
... employment , they act as lump - sum taxes , with no impact on the return to additional hours worked . Coupled with the evidence on wage and employment effects cited above , this suggests that the current structure of payroll taxes may ...
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... employment rate in the last two decades . On net between 1960 and 1999 , the increase in Quebec's relative employment rate was less than two points - from 90 per cent to 91.5 per cent . The four - decade contribution of the rise in ...
... employment rate in the last two decades . On net between 1960 and 1999 , the increase in Quebec's relative employment rate was less than two points - from 90 per cent to 91.5 per cent . The four - decade contribution of the rise in ...
Contents
Overview of the Festschrift | 3 |
Pensions | 4 |
An Economist for All Seasons | 19 |
Copyright | |
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