The 2005 Rae Review challenges all those who work with higher education in Ontario. The report, Ontario: A Leader in Learning, addresses the quality of higher education and training, the overall design of the postsecondary system, accessibility, current underfunding of universities and colleges, availability of loans and bursaries, and accountability and governance in the postsecondary sector. The studies in

The 2006 federal budget was the first for a new Conservative minority government led by a prime minister from the west. As a platform for implementing distinctive election promises, the 2006 budget offered ample opportunity for rethinking fiscal priorities in Canada, such as cutting the GST, addressing fiscal imbalance with the provinces, and finding a different approach to childcare and child benefits. The papers in this volume examine the political and economic context informing the 2006 budget as well as lessons from recent U.S. tax policy debates and a quantitative evaluation of the...

After years of economic expansion, Canada is experiencing shortages of skilled workers in a number of areas - a mere hint of what's to come, given the eight-million plus baby boomers who will be retiring from the Canadian labour force . This title looks at Canada's retirement landscape in broad terms.

After fifteen years of economic expansion, Canada is now experiencing shortages of skilled workers in a number of areas - a mere hint of what's to come, given the eight-million plus baby boomers who will be retiring from the Canadian labour force over the next fifteen years or so. This on-coming wave of retirements will have major implications for the economic well-being of both the retirees - particularly since people are living longer after retirement - and the Canadian economy at large. In Retirement Policy Issues in Canada, contributors look at Canada's changing retirement landscape in...

The papers in this volume examine the political and economic context informing the 2009 budget and provide a quantitative evaluation of the impact of the overall budget package on the Canadian economy. Special attention is devoted to topics such as the economic stimulus and stabilization provisions in the budget, specific tax policy changes, financial market provisions, fiscal sustainability of the budget deficits, cost-sharing and federal-provincial fiscal relations, federal equalization transfers since the O'Brien Report, Canada's declining social safety net and EI reform, social policy and...

Distribution analysis has advanced remarkably in recent years, and this is a valuable application of its principles to a Canadian context. The book provides an extensive survey of recent literature and a new source of income and wealth distribution data for Ontario, drawn from newly available microdata sets. It also presents an evaluation of the data as a basis for measuring inequality in the distribution of economic and well-being.

The empirical results illustrate how incomes vary significantly with age according to labour market attachment and experience, educational attainment...