Decentralization looms large in any analysis of Canadian economic and social policy. This trend has been especially pronounced in the area of unemployment insurance (UI) and social assistance (SA) programmes. Provinces now manage SA programmes and retain 100% of any cost savings that they...

Motivation, Management, and Industrial Modernity -- Selling Work's Rewards: Psychological Motivation and Quests to Shape Minds and Behaviors in the Workplace -- Contests over Motivation and Work in the Great Depression -- The War over Motivation: Prosperity Rhetoric and the Remaking of Work's...

Le present document a pour but d'examiner la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de 1982 a 2000 selon une approche descriptive graphique a l'aide du fichier de la banque de Donnees administratives longitudinales. A l'exemple de Gottschalk et Moffitt (1994), nous decomposons la...

This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers' Earnings in Canada. This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings...

Le present document porte sur la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de 1982 a 1997 et sur l'evolution de cette variabilite en fonction du taux de chomage et de la croissance du produit interieur brut (PIB) reel durant cette periode. En utilisant un grand panel de donnees fiscales,...

The central objective of this study is to investigate the income sources and patterns of prime-age and older workers who suffer a layoff from steady employment. We focus on a set of cohorts who are deemed to have a high degree of attachment to the labour force preceding the event of an...

Regionally based entry requirements and benefit durations prolong the persistence of unemployment and reduce economic incentives to adjust to labour-market conditions. Reforms aimed at equity are overdue. Regionally based criteria should be replaced by uniform, countrywide, employment insurance...

We study Canadian national and provincial family income inequality from 1991-1997. We use special cases of generalized entropy measures, the Theil measures of inequality, since they are decomposable into between provinces inequality and within provinces inequality. We draw statistical inferences...