[eng] Quebec's young disadvantaged - poorly educated - men performed poorly in terms of employability on the Canadian labour market over the last decade. An analysis of the effects of the government employment schemes designed for them makes this phenomenon even more interesting, especially...

In this paper, we study the impact of the municipal mergers that occurred in Quebec between 1992 and 1999 on the effective tax rates and on the market value of residential properties. We show that the impact is undetermined a priori. The empirical analysis relies on two econometric methods that...

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...

Children are seldom accounted for in household behavioural models. They are usually assumed to have neither the capacity nor the power to influence the household decision process. The literature on collective models has so far incorporated children through the caring preferences of their parents...

[eng] Job-search theory has enjoyed a significant revival, . boosted by the work of Burdett and Mortensen (1998), who highlighted the fact that employees'on-the-job search behaviour influences the competition which makes itself felt, by way of salaries, between compa nies. The equilibrium is...