Our focus is on the event of receipt of low-income support benefits amongst Canadians who are 65 or older. The outcome that we model empirically is the incidence rate for Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits. We estimate multivariate models to investigate the effects of age, cohort,...

Our topic is the receipt patterns of low-income support benefits in the form of the guaranteed income supplement (GIS) benefit amongst Canadians who are 65 and older. The GIS regime is the only means-tested public retirement benefit that is targeted to the group of retired individuals and...

In this paper, we analyze the workings of a small-scale program involving foundational learning that is targeted at unemployed workers in Surrey, BC by exploiting information contained in the administrative data set that was compiled through its execution. Although this data set contains huge...

Emissions from transport represent a quarter of Scotland’s total. Action to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions from transport has been criticized for being limited, poorly integrated with other areas of policy and focused on narrow programmes. Several funding bodies at the...

The first objective of this paper is to examine the empirical relationship between low-frequency shocks to labour demand and average wages on an industrial basis using a Canadian longitudinal data set. We estimate a fixed-effects model that controls for workers' unobservable attributes. The...

The subject of this paper is the repeat use of UI/EI benefits in Canada. The first objective is to investigate empirically the pattern of adjustment that UI users exhibit over a multiple claim horizon. Our secondary objective is to investigate a behavioural channel that might potentially...

This article critically reviews how the Scottish Executive's approach to transport has developed since devolution. Although there is much to commend, a number of concerns can be identified, including the possibility that a number of strategic infrastructure schemes appear to have been approved...

The aim of this paper is to examine whether evidence for a ripple effect in house prices can be found across residential property markets of Irish cities. The house price dynamics are considered in the frequency domain using spectral analysis. This entails the estimation of power spectra,...

This article investigates co-movements between currency markets of Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Slovakia and the Euro in the year following the drying up of money markets in August 2007. The article shows that assessing the degree of foreign currency co-movement by correlation can lead to...

Recent research indicates that there is an important, though complex, relationship between the social image of smoking and young people's self- and aspirational images. This study explored how young people see themselves (self-image), how they would like to be (ideal image), and whether these...