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1. Service Industry Growth: Causes and Effects

   The services economy is pregnant with paradox. It employs our most-skilled and our least-skilled workers. The small productivity increase of service sector workers is regarded as one of the key problems facing us in a future in which four-fifths of the ...

2. Focus: Why is Canada's Unemployment Rate so High?

   The problem of unemployment has been the subject of a number of past Fraser Institute studies. This study attempts to get an analytical handle on this crucial issue by focusing on the relationship between the unemployment situation in Canada and that in ...

3. Focus on the Insurance Corporation of British Columbia

   The Insurance Corporation of British Columbia (lCBC) was established in 1973. It was designed to replace a conventional private automobile insurance system by a state monopoly operating as a nonprofit Crown corporation. ICBC has all the characteristics of ...

4. Free Market Zones

   Free economic activity zones, or free market zones as they are often called, have generated many economic and social benefits and have proven politically acceptable in an increasing number of industrialized and developing countries. In these designated ...

5. The Real Cost of the B.C. Milk Board: A Case Study in Canadian Agricultural Policy

   In this book, two Simon Fraser University professors of economics, analyze the social cost of the B.C. milk marketing board. Through trenchant analysis and revealing statistics, the two authors examine the impact of the milk quota system and the extent to ...