As a net exporter of oil, the recent upward trend in the world prices of energy products represents both an opportunity and a challenge for Canada. This study investigates the aggregate and sectoral effects of a sustained increase in these prices on the Canadian economy using a multi-sector...

Using detailed information on employment trajectory provided by the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada (LSIC), this study examines labour market outcomes of recent immigrants in terms of duration of access to the first job in their intended occupation, as determined by a question in the...

This paper explores in a general equilibrium framework the welfare and sectoral implications of an optimally designed system of border tax adjustments (BTA) on the imports of energy-intensive industries. Recently, several propositions have been made by policy makers and researchers to use BTA as...

International immigration has changed not only the ethnic and cultural composition of the Canadian society, but it has also altered its geographical dispersion. Immigrants tend to locate in the major urban areas and thus contribute to accentuate the geographic concentration of the population....

The paper examines the relationship between economic growth and environmental degradation in Canada. Reduced form models are estimated to measure the relationship between GDP and 10 measures of environmental degradation. The reduced form results provide little support for the existence of an...

Il existe une perception qu’il y a des inégalités économiques entre les générations et plus précisément que la situation économique des jeunes travailleurs d’aujourd’hui est moins bonne que celle de leurs aînés. Dans ce texte, on cherche à tester cette hypothèse pour les hommes...

The deteriorating economic position of low-skilled workers relative to high-skilled workers appears to be one harmful effect of the economic globalisation that took place during the 1980s and 1990s. In the present paper, we survey the recent empirical literature on that topic and perform a time...