Economics 480
Spring 2001
D. Maki

Partial Reading List

I.  Background

- Riddell, W. Craig, "Canadian Labour Market Performance in
International Perspective", Canadian Journal of Economics,
32:5, November 1999, pp. 1097-1134.

II.  Unemployment Insurance

- Countryman, Galen, "The Effect of Unemployment Insurance
Benefits on Income Inequality in the Canadian Provinces",
Canadian Public Policy, 25:4, 1999, pp. 539-555.

- Hale, Geoffrey E., "Reforming Employment Insurance:
Transcending the Politics of the Status Quo", Canadian
Public Policy, 24:4, December 1998, pp. 429-451.

III.  Pensions and Retirement

- Burgess, David and Joel Fried, "Canadian Retirement
Savings Plans and the Foreign Property Rule", Canadian
Public Policy, 25:3, 1999, pp. 395-416.

- Diamond, Peter, "Public Provision of Pensions:  The Doug
Purvis Memorial Lecture", Canadian Public Policy, 22:1,
1996, pp. 1-6.

- Kesselman, Jonathan R., "Payroll Taxes in the Finance of
Social Security", Canadian Public Policy, 22:2, 1996, pp.
162-179.

- LeBlanc, L. Suzanne and Julie Ann McMullin, "Falling
through the Cracks:  Addressing the Needs of Individuals
between Employment and Retirement", Canadian Public Policy,
23:3, 1997, pp. 289-304.

- McDonald, Lynn, "The Link between Social Research and
Social Policy Options:  Reverse Retirement as a Case in
Point", Canadian Public Policy, Supplement 1997, pp. 90-113.

- Oreopoulos, Philip, "Canada:  On the Road to Fiscal
Balance", in Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff and
Willi Leibfritz, Generational Accounting Around the World,
Chicago:  University of Chicago Press, 1999, pp. 199-217.

IV.  Minimum Wages

- Landon, Stuart, "High School Enrollment, Minimum Wages and
Education Spending", Canadian Public Policy, 23:2, 1997, pp.
141-163.

- Review Symposium:  Myth and Measurement:  The New
Economics of the Minimum Wage, by David Card and Alan B.
Krueger.  Introduction by Ronald G. Ehrenberg; Comments by
Charles Brown, Richard B. Freeman, Daniel S. Hamermesh, Paul
Osterman, and Finis R. Welch.  In Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, July 1995, pp. 827-849.

- Shannon, Michael T. and Charles M. Beach, "Distributional
Employment Effects of Ontario Minimum-Wage Proposals:  A
Microdata Approach", Canadian Public Policy, 1995, pp. 284-
303.

V.  Discrimination - Status of Women.

- Baker, Michael and Nicole M. Fortin, "Women's Wages in
Women's Work:  A U.S. Canada Comparison of the Roles of
Unions and 'Public Goods' Sector Jobs, American Economic
Review, 89:2, 1999, pp. 198-203.

- Chaykowski, Richard P. and Lisa M. Powell, "Women and the
Labour Market:  Recent Trends and Policy Issues", Canadian
Public Policy, 25:Supplement, 1999, pp. S1-S25.

- Reilly, Kevin T. and Tony S. Wirjanto, "The Proportion of
Females in the Establishment:  Discrimination, Preferences
and Technology", Canadian Public Policy, 25:Supplement,
1999, pp. S73-S94.


VI.  Immigration.

- Green, Alan G. and David A. Green, "The Economic Goals of
Canada's Immigration Policy:  Past and Present", Canadian
Public Policy, 25:3, 1999, pp. 425-451.

- McDonald, James Ted and Christopher Worswick,
"Unemployment Incidence of Immigrant Men in Canada",
Canadian Public Policy, 23:4, 1997, pp. 353-371.

- Worswick, Christopher, "Immigrant Familes in the Canadian
Labour Market", Canadian Public Policy, 22:4, 1996, pp. 378-
396.

VII.  Other Topics.

- Beaulieu, Eugene, "The Canada - U.S. Free Trade Agreement
and Labour Market Adjustment in Canada", Canadian Journal of
Economics, 33:2, May 2000, pp. 540-563.

- Finnie, Ross, "From Schoold to Work:  The Evolution of
Early Labour Market Outcomes of Canadian Postsecondary
Graduates", Canadian Public Policy, 26:2, 2000, pp. 197-224.

- Huberman, Michael and Paul Lanoie, "Changing Attitudes
Toward Worksharing:  Evidence from Quebec", Canadian Public
Policy, 26:2, 2000, pp. 141-155.

- Mirus, Rolf, Roger S. Smith and Vladimir Karoleff,
"Canada's Underground Economy Revisited:  Update and
Critique", Canadian Public Policy, 20:3, 1994, pp. 235-252.

- Osberg, Lars, "Presidential Address - Poverty in Canada
and the United States:  Measurement, Trends and
Implications", Canadian Journal of Economics, 33:4, November
2000, pp. 847-877.

- Roy, Arun and Ging Wong, "Direct Job Creation Programs:
Evaluation Lessons on Cost-Effectiveness", Canadian Public
Policy, 26:2, 2000, pp. 157-169.