Analysis of real wages for three occupations in 13 Canadian cities for 1901-50 suggests Canada had a national labour market at least until 1950. However, analysis of real wages for 10 Canadian cities for 1971-2000 yields little evidence favouring integration of Canada's regional labour markets....

We investigate the empirical validity of the long-run Fisher effect using a technique capable of testing for the existence of a long-run relationship regardless of whether the underlying time series are individually I(1) or I(0). Using a variety of interest rates for the United States and Canada...