The Canadian population is aging as the children of the "baby boom" move into and through middle age and then on toward the retirement years. The "baby bust" that followed the boom has slowed the rate of population growth and reduced sharply the supply of young people entering the labour force....

This study uses survey data relating to the United States commercial sector to estimate and interpret annual energy demand relationships in which account is taken of energy and non-energy prices, building characteristics, and weather information. It applies the estimated US relationships to the...

This paper studies the selectivity of the 1982-92 rural/urban migrations of the Africans in Zimbabwe, based on the data from a multidimensional tabulation of all the individual records in the 1992 Population Census. The focus is on the selectivity with respect to gender, place of birth, and...

Elasticity values calculated at the macro level are biased as estimates of micro elasticities, and vice versa. We derive convenient expressions for aggregation/disaggregation biases in an Almost Ideal Demand System. Using after-tax data we calculate income distribution parameters for seven...

In this paper we explore the question of whether the gender of the instructor in first year university microeconomics might play a role either in the performance of students in the course - especially the performance of female students - or in the likelihood that a student will continue in...

This report is the Users' Manual that accompanies MEDS-E, the economic component of a new Windows-based version of the MEDS (Models of the Economic-Demographic System) software. MEDS-E is designed to make use of the all-Canada population and labour force projections from PMEDS-D in projecting...

Using intraday data, this study examines the lead/lag relations of prices and trading activity between the option and stock option markets during the period surrounding quarterly earnings announcements. We are unable to support Stephan and Whaley's (1990) findings that, in general, trading...

This article examines the question of whether the provinces are becoming increasingly similar in their total spending and in the level of spending devoted to particular functional areas. Using various measures of spending, we begin by briefly tracing the pattern of provincial spending between...

This paper describes the evolution of accounting systems, accounting education, and the accounting profession in the People's Republic of China. Throughout the reform process, accounting development has been recognized as critical to Chinese economic progress. As China moves towards a more...

Over the past 20 to 30 years, the importance of families as providers of assistance to older Canadians has been well documented through research. However, over these decades, the contexts within which families exist and provide support have changed considerably. This paper examines changes over...