Category Canadian economy
Covid-19, Italy and Lessons for Canada
by Thomas Barbiero, Ryerson University and Livio Di Matteo, Lakehead University As Italo-Canadese and members of the large Italian diaspora throughout the world, we have found the COVID-19 situation in Italy truly heart-wrenching. As we write, Italy is the hardest hit country outside of China with over 60,000 confirmed cases and over 6,000 deaths. The […]
Rising Health Spending Is Not Just About Seniors
The Canadian Institute for Health Information (CIHI) has released its 23rd annual report on health spending in Canada – National Health Expenditure Trends, 1975 to 2019. As a member of the CIHI National Health Expenditures advisory panel, it is always great to see the wealth of data on trends in health spending across Canada. Total […]
What killed real wage growth?
This is the Project Link chart that most startles me: What killed the growth in real wages in the early 1970s? I've been trying to come up with an answer to this question, and I think I have one. I'm not entirely sure that it's the correct answer, but I think it's a plausible conjecture.
Project Link update
It's past time for my annual update for Project Link, my attempt to piece together the fragments of Statistics Canada's published data into coherent time series.
Historical Canadian Government Data Sources
I recently received the following message from Ryan MacDonald at Statistics Canada: “I recently came upon a number [of] scans done by our library to place the historical publications into pdfs. They can sometimes be a little difficult to search for, so I thought I would pass along a few links that may be of […]
The Hospitalization Life Cycle
The Canadian Institute for Health Information has just released a report on Hospital Stays in Canada which provides a plethora of interesting tables on hospital stays in Canada at a national and provincial level. Both the age-standardized hospitalization rate (per 100,000 population) and the age standardized average length of stay (in days) in Canada have […]
Robinson Crusoe and the Carbon Tax Rebate
Suppose I impose a carbon tax on Robinson Crusoe. But I give him a rebate exactly equal to the tax he pays. That tax plus rebate will have no effect on Robinson Crusoe's behaviour. He knows that if he cuts carbon by 1kg, and pays $1 less tax, his rebate also falls by $1, so […]
Guest Post: Comparing Technological Change in the Health and Taxi Industries
Well, here is a guest post forwarded to me by Ruolz Ariste – a colleague whom I originally met during my annual interactions with the CIHI and with whom I have co-authored. Ruolz Ariste is currently pursuing a PhD in Industrial Relations in a program run by run jointly by Université Laval and Université du […]
Canada’s Gross Domestic Income and trading gains: An update and estimates for the provinces
This builds off an earlier post about the terms of trade, trading gains, and Gross Domestic Income and it extends the analysis to the provincial level. It's probably a good idea to take a look at it before continuing on.
Hopefully, Tomorrow Won’t Be Yesterday
A short quick post. Yesterday’s job numbers for Canada were greeted with surprise. With 55,900 jobs added in February, the sentiment as best summarized by Doug Porter, Chief Economist with BMO Capital Markets is that: “The economy clearly is not falling off a cliff by any means, arguably quite the opposite”. This is despite what […]
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