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  1. Income Mobility: The Rich and Poor in Canada

    One set of government statistics shows that the average incomes of Canadians in the lowest quintile of the distribution, the “poor”, remained constant during the period from 1990 to 2009. Another set of government statistics indicates that, over the same ...

  2. Immigration and the Welfare State Revisited: Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada in 2014

    We estimated in our earlier papers that because of the low average incomes of recent immigrants, the low taxes they pay and the government services they absorb, the fiscal burden on Canadian taxpayers was over $6,000 per capita in fiscal year 2005/06, and ...

  3. Determinants of Economic Freedom

    Many studies have shown that economic freedom is a major determinant of countries’ living standards, economic growth, and other indicators of social and economic well-being. This paper is an effort to understand the determinants of economic freedom in ...

  4. Canada's Immigrant Selection Policies- Recent Record, Marginal Changes and Needed Reforms

    This paper reviews the history of Canadian immigration policies and documents that the present policies impose on Canadians a fiscal burden of $20 billion annually. The existence of this burden is attributed to flaws in the current immigrant selection ...

  5. Fiscal Transfers to Immigrants in Canada: Responding to Critics and a Revised Estimate

    This paper responds to the criticism by Mohsen Javdani and Krishna Pendakur of our estimate of the net fiscal transfer to recent immigrants. Specifically, Javdani and Pendakur question our estimate that in fiscal year 2005/06 the average fiscal burden ...

  6. Immigration and the Canadian Welfare State 2011

    This publication provides an estimate of the fiscal burden created by recent immigration into Canada and proposes reforms to existing immigrant selection policies to eliminate the burden. It uses a 2006 Census database to estimate the average incomes and ...

  7. The Effects of Mass Immigration

    Since 1990, Canada's annual rate of immigration has been extremely high-the highest in the world, averaging 0.75% of the population-and has had a significant impact on the size of the population, adding, between 1990 and 2006, 3.9 million (14.2%) to ...

  8. Government Lovers: Paid by Canadian Governments and Taxpayers

    This study presents information about the size of government in Canada by accounting for the number of Canadians who are paid by governments as civil servants and beneficiaries of social insurance programs. It supplements the annual Tax Freedom Day ...

  9. Immigration and the Welfare State in Canada: Growing Conflicts, Constructive Solutions

    This paper recommends a continuation of the efforts to achieve a better use of the high skill levels of the recent wave of educated immigrants. However, its main recommendation involves a fundamental reform of Canada's immigration selection process ...

  10. International Evidence on the Effects of Having no Capital Gains Taxes

    International Evidence on the Effects of Having No Capital Gains Taxes represents the second part of The Fraser Institute's ongoing effort to study the costs and benefits of capital gains taxation in Canada. The first part of this effort involved a ...