Since Canada is a very open economy, globalisation and increased foreign competition may entail significant long-run labour market and distributional implications. Indeed, with increased foreign competition and China’s accession to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001, Canada is facing...

This study explores the long-term economic effects of population ageing by region in Canada using a dynamic regional computable overlapping generations model. The model has six regions, six goods and 15 overlapping generations of heterogeneous workers by skill level and immigration status. The...

Income tax reform has become a hot topic in both the United States and Canada. Over the past few years, a variety of proposals have been advanced for the replacement of the current income tax system and most proposals involve a compression of the multi-rate structure into a single rate and a...