I study the impact of Canada's expansive immigration policy launched in 2016 on labour shortages in six regions of the country, particularly in Quebec, which enjoys some autonomy of management in this area. I look at movements of the Beveridge curve, which draws the classical inverse relation...

Our paper analyzes the determinants of unemployment rates in Canada. The theoritical framework incorporates "demande-side" as well as "supply-side" variables: the interest rate, federal spending, taxation, foreign activity, minimum wages, union density, demographic pressure, unemployment...

In this chapter, Pierre Fortin provides a critique of the conduct of Canadian monetary policy in the 1990s, a critique that he developed throughout the decade. While not denying that the US economic slowdown in the early 1990s reduced growth in Canada, Fortin lays the blame for the inferior...