The Institute for Research on Public Policy issued a new study, Leaving Some Behind: What Happens when Workers Get Sick, by Tyler Meredith and Colin Chia. The study found that gaps in insurance coverage, poorly coordinated income support programs, and an outdated approach to disability are leaving too many workers behind when they become sick. Meredith and Chia … Read more
India should be a priority market for Canada, yet this relationship remains vastly underdeveloped. A comprehensive trade deal could strengthen economic relations, but finalizing negotiations will be difficult because the most promising areas are also the most politically sensitive, according to a new study from the IRPP. Economic links between Canada and India have grown … Read more
Canada’s ethnocultural neighbourhoods are not ghettos, according to a new study from the IRPP. As the rapid growth of enclaves in the largest cities continues to transform Canada’s social landscape, we should stop assuming that these neighbourhoods are problematic for the integration of new Canadians. “In Canada, as in Europe, enclaves are often viewed as … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy released a new French-language paper on Employment Insurance, authored by Michel Bédard (former chief actuary for the EI program) and Pierre Fortin (Université du Québec a Montréal). The paper, entitled “Onze propositions pour un meilleur régime d’assurance-emploi,” shows that EI is failing to meet the needs of working Canadians, and … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy released a new study, “Who Are Canada’s Top 1 Percent?” by Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell. The study finds that the dramatic rise in pay of Canadians in the top one per cent has far outpaced that of all other income earners over the past three decades. While … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy pre-released a chapter from the forthcoming book Income Inequality: The Canadian Story, by Kelly Foley and David Green, which finds that increased educational spending, especially at the university level, should not be counted on as a central policy for reducing income inequality. The authors argue that a more effective approach … Read more
In a prereleased chapter from the forthcoming volume “Income Inequality: The Canadian Story”, Andrew Heisz and Brian Murphy (Statistics Canada) analyze the redistributive impact of taxes and transfers in Canada over the past four decades. The authors find that cumulative increases in market income inequality during the 1980s and 1990s recessions were essentially offset by the tax-and-transfer system, which … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) released two new studies. In “Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities”, productivity experts John Baldwin and Beiling Yan found that Canadian data suggest that the most important way that trade policies have improved productivity is through industrial restructuring, which shifts production from less productive to more productive businesses. In her … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy (IRPP) pre-released a chapter for the forthcoming book, “Income Inequality: The Canadian Story,” featuring a new study by Keith Banting and John Myles analyzing the politics of framing the new inequality. “The top one-third of income earners has learned how to take advantage of the new economy, and the new politics, while the … Read more
The Institute for Research on Public Policy released a an advance chapter from the volume Redesigning Canadian Trade Policies for New Global Realities. While conventional wisdom holds that only a modest share of Canada’s international commerce occurs outside the US, this view often relies on customs-based export data, which do not capture Canada’s broader participation in … Read more
