Who was Barbara Mitchell?
  1. Search
  2. Amela Karabegovic
  3. Site

Search

Search results

  1. Minimum wages don't help the poor

    Appeared in the National Post Last year, seven provinces increased the minimum wage. An eighth province, BC, is likely to join course later this year. While poverty activists, politicians, and policy makers who push for higher minimum wages might do so ...

  2. Fraser Forum- November/December 2010: Economic Freedom

    In this issue: Celebrating economic freedom by Fred McMahon The Fraser Institute works continuously to promote and develop economic freedom throughout the world. Economic freedom is essential for US economic recovery by Nathan J. Ashby American states ...

  3. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2010 Annual Report

    This is the seventh report on economic freedom in the Arab world. The first was published by the same authors in the Arab World Competitiveness Report 2005 (Lopez-Claros and Schwab, 2005). The second and subsequent editions were published by the ...

  4. Measuring the Fiscal Performance of Canada's Premiers

    Since there is no measure of how provincial premiers are performing, it is difficult for Canadians to hold the premiers accountable for the relative performance of their fiscal policies. This report provides Canadians with an objective, empirical ...

  5. The hard facts about B.C.'s minimum wage

    Appeared in the Vancouver Sun Last week, B.C. Labour Minister Murray Coell floated a trial balloon that his government would consider an increase to the provincial minimum wage. Union bosses, including B.C. Federation of Labour head Jim Sinclair, cheered ...

  6. Measuring Labour Markets in Canada and the United States: 2010 Edition

    This study is the sixth installment in our ongoing research to assess the performance of labour markets and explain why results differ among jurisdictions. Indicators of labour performance such as job creation, unemployment, and productivity are used to ...

  7. Economic Freedom of North America: 2010 Annual Report

    The index published in Economic Freedom of North America rates economic freedom on a 10-point scale at two levels, the subnational and the all-government. At the all-government level, the index captures the impact of restrictions on economic freedom by ...

  8. “Living Wages” will decrease employment and increase property taxes

    Appeared in Business in Vancouver In April, the City of New Westminster became the first Canadian city to adopt a “Living Wage” policy. A living wage is a minimum hourly wage that is supposed to be pegged to the level at which a household can “meet its ...

  9. Did Government Stimulus Fuel Economic Growth in Canada? An Analysis of Statistics Canada Data

    The federal government has claimed credit for Canada's economic turnaround in the second half of 2009, but data from Statistics Canada tell a different story. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/sites/default/files/did-government-stimulus-fuel-economic ...

  10. Economic Freedom of the Arab World: 2009 Annual Report

    Economic freedom is based on the cornerstones of personal choice, voluntary exchange, freedom to compete, and security of private property. Research shows that individuals living in countries with high levels of economic freedom enjoy higher levels of ...