The wage opportunities afforded different racial groups vary considerably. We present a new analysis of wage differentials for different visible minority groups in Canada which also accounts for immigration background, using the first wave of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics. With the...

The master file of the Labour Market Activity Survey is used to investigate the effect of disability on labour market activity. Our results indicate the importance of acknowledging the severity of disability, of distinguishing between men and women, and of distinguishing between earnings and...

Despite the absence of a formal definition of the relationship between the marginal and the global effects of risk, in the literature termed the economics of uncertainty, intuition would suggest it unjustifiable to presume that these two concepts are categorically independent. This paper...

One argument against a policy to achieve absolute price stability is that workers resist pay cuts. We examine several Canadian microdata sources and corroborate earlier evidence of pay-cut resistance, particularly recently as inflation has approached zero. We then use data on industrial sectors...

This article reviews research from the five income-maintenance experiments in Canada and the United States. After sketching the historical and political context of the experiments, the authors compare their designs and discuss some important analytic difficulties. Their primary focus is the...