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1. Voting with Their Feet: Migration in Atlantic Canada

   Migration is a perennial topic of interest in Atlantic Canada. Out-migration specifically has been widely recognized as both a symptom of the region’s economic weakness and a potential threat to its future well-being. Atlantic Canada experienced a ...

2. Fiscal Lessons for Atlantic Canada from Saskatchewan

   COVID-19 and the related economic recession have thrown governments across Canada into varying degrees of fiscal peril. In Newfoundland & Labrador, the challenges of rapidly increasing debt and large deficits have created perhaps the largest fiscal ...

3. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Essays on Improving Productivity Growth in Canada

   Surveys of Canadians have shown a strong desire for reduced work hours with a four-day work week being a highly prized goal. This is hardly surprising given that leisure time is a valuable good for most people. To be sure, a four-day work week would be ...

4. Atlantic Canada's Precarious Public Finances

   Canada’s four Atlantic provinces—Prince Edward Island, Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, and Newfoundland & Labrador—face long-term threats to fiscal sustainability. COVID-19 and the resulting economic downturn has only added to these challenges. Further, ...

5. Achieving the Four-Day Work Week: Part 4 Essays

   The structure and rates of taxation are important in any discussion of productivity in Canada because the various types of taxes, as well as tax rates, affect economic behavior in different ways. Three prominent types of taxes in Canada are business taxes ...

6. Correcting Common Misunderstandings about Capital Gains Taxes

   This essay reviews some of the common misunderstandings related to capital gains and their taxation. First, a significant body of research concludes that taxes on capital are among the most economically damaging. Two of the more important adverse effects ...

7. The Changing Size of Government in Canada, 2007–2018

   The size of government in Canada is an important matter of public policy. It directly influences the allocation of society’s resources, with consequences for long-term economic growth and prosperity. While this study is primarily focused on the size of ...

8. Measuring the Equalization Clawback on Natural Resource Revenue in Have-Not Provinces

   Over time, critics have identified many problems with Canada’s equalization program. This study will examine and quantify one such problem: the disincentive that the program creates for the development and deployment of natural resources in “have-not” ...

9. Is Fiscal Stimulus an Effective Policy Response to a Recession? Reviewing the Existing Research

   This report examines existing academic studies that analyze evidence regarding the effectiveness of fiscal stimulus—additional government spending and/or tax relief—as a mechanism to mitigate the impact of a recession and speed up economic ...

10. Comparing Government and Private Sector Compensation in Atlantic Canada

    Main Conclusions Using data on individual workers from January to December 2018, this report estimates the wage differential between the government and private sectors in the Atlantic provinces. It also evaluates four non-wage benefits for which data are ...