Many recent empirical studies have shown that recent cohorts of immigrants to western countries face more hardship than previous cohorts. In Quebec, for instance, the welfare dependency rates of immigrants have steadily increased between 1982 and 1998 and are insensitive to fluctuations in the...

Changes in parameters of tax and transfer programs can induce individuals to alter their behaviour in a wide variety of ways, including changes in labour supply, in the nature of employee compensation, in the choice of working in the underground economy, in savings decisions, in human capital...

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)...