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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Page 313
... share of local graduates likely to remain in the province of graduation . As shown by our gravity model equations in the previous section , the distance effect is more likely to show up for bachelor's than for master's and PhDs , since ...
... share of local graduates likely to remain in the province of graduation . As shown by our gravity model equations in the previous section , the distance effect is more likely to show up for bachelor's than for master's and PhDs , since ...
Page 389
... share and the capital - labour ratio . First , Quebec's employment rate dropped sharply from 90 per cent of Ontario's in 1975 to 85 per cent in 1982 ( see Figure 4 ) . Second , the corporate profit share in Quebec plummetted from 93 per ...
... share and the capital - labour ratio . First , Quebec's employment rate dropped sharply from 90 per cent of Ontario's in 1975 to 85 per cent in 1982 ( see Figure 4 ) . Second , the corporate profit share in Quebec plummetted from 93 per ...
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... share in the high and very high intervals ( 6.5 percentage points ) completely swamps the reduced share of workers in the low and very low intervals ( -2.1 percentage points ) . Thus what is going on in the distribution of female ...
... share in the high and very high intervals ( 6.5 percentage points ) completely swamps the reduced share of workers in the low and very low intervals ( -2.1 percentage points ) . Thus what is going on in the distribution of female ...
Contents
Overview of the Festschrift | 3 |
Pensions | 4 |
An Economist for All Seasons | 19 |
Copyright | |
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