The purpose of this paper is to critically review the past four decades of empirical research on the relationship between internal migration and regional variation in the generosity of Canada's unemployment insurance system. It has long been argued that because the Canadian insurance system is...

Volunteers make an important contribution to Canadian society. The authors address what motivates people to volunteer and whether they respond to government expenditure decisions using a 1987 microdata set and find that, while the level of government spending influences the decision to...

The question of whether corporate charitable contributions are crowded out by government expenditures has been virtually neglected in the literature. While governments are engaged in fiscal realignments, it seems timely to ascertain whether the corporate sector will fund any shortfall in...