This paper seeks to provide evidence on whether short term responses in childbearing decisions apparently induced by changes in tax incentives are permanent or transitory. Using inter-jurisdictional differences in the implementation of the Family Allowance Program in Canada in the mid 70's, we...

The immigration experience over the post-World War II period is reviewed for Canada, the United States and Australia. The immigration policies of each country are compared. The existing literature on the labour market performance of immigrant in each country is discussed and interpreted within...

The objective of this paper is to analyze the process by which young Canadians decide to leave high school and to situate it in the context of the value of a high school diploma over the 1981-1998 period, conditional on not pursuing post-secondary education. Evidence from the 1981-96 Canadian...

Using landing records data on all immigrants who have landed in Canada since 1980, this paper examines the extent to which the relative change in the weighting and in the composition of the evaluation grid in Quebec in 1996 has improved the relative skill level of the immigrants settling in...

Ce texte décrit le Serveur de Négociation Électronique GAMME, un mécanisme générique de négociation de contrats appliquant les technologies de l'Internet et des enchères électroniques. Il comprend également une présentation de la conception du commerce électronique développée dans...

Conducted for the Treasury Board of Québec, this study seeks to present recent contributions to the evolution, within an enterprise architecture context, of de jure and de facto standards by various actors in the milieu, industrial consortia, and international standardization committees active...

The Government of Québec is slowly but surely turning its attention to the issue of free and open source software in response to the interest shown by Québec's software industry and the attention paid to the phenomenon by governments around the world. This openness is easy to understand given...

Cette étude, réalisée pour le Conseil du trésor du Québec, a pour objectifs de présenter, dans un contexte d'architecture d'entreprise, les récents développements dans l'évolution des normes et standards par les différents acteurs du milieu, les consortiums industriels et les comités...

This document sums up the technological, economical, biological and statutory aspects of products issued from Canadian biotechnology, used in the fields of agribusiness, and commonly called GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms). A first section analyses the different terms (and their nuances)...