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Paula M Emery posted an articleCanadian Public Policy Vol. 46, No. 2, June 2020 see more
Canadian Public Policy
Vol. 46, No. 2, June 2020
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Reforming Canada’s Disaster Assistance Programs
by James B. Davies
Canada’s disaster financial assistance (DFA) system provides benefits through the provinces, subsidized by the federal DFA Arrangements (DFAA) above damage thresholds that were tripled in 2015. Disaster incidence and severity is increasing. Flooding is most costly, then storms and wildfire. The need for policy changes is analyzed, with particular attention to flooding.
by Stephen D. Williamson
The origins of central banking, in general, are examined, along with the specific origins of the Bank of Canada. A general policy framework is set out, in terms of goals, policy rules, and implementation, and the Bank of Canada’s inflation targeting framework is evaluated.
by Vera Brenčič, Julie Dubois, Lucie Morin
In 2013, the Canadian government introduced improvements to its electronic Job Alerts notification service that emails job seekers about job openings posted on an online job board. The improvements included additional advertisements of the service and increases in the frequency and scope of notifications sent to subscribers. Using data on workers who lost their jobs either before or after the intervention, we find that subscription to Job Alerts increased after the intervention.
Trends in Parental Time Allocated to Child Care: Evidence from Canada, 1986–2010
by Lan Wei
This study finds a continuous and dramatic increase in parental time spent in child care in Canada from 1986 to 2010. Decomposition of the increase shows that it occurs within demographic groups and does not reflect demographic changes.
After-Hours Incentives and Emergency Department Visits: Evidence from Ontario
by Rose Anne Devlin, Koffi Ahoto Kpelitse, Lihua Li, Nirav Mehta, Sisira Sarma
One important component of primary care reform in Ontario is to incentivize physicians to work after hours to improve access to core primary care services and potentially reduce visits to hospital emergency departments (EDs). Empirically, evidence on this link is ambiguous.
by Dmitry Lysenko, Elizabeth Schwartz, Saul Schwartz
The Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) between Canada and the European Union, which entered into force in 2017, is the first international trade agreement that grants access to government procurement markets in Canadian municipalities. In the short term, will the agreement lead to major changes in the policies and procedures of Canadian local government procurement authorities or to changes in the proportion of foreign-controlled companies that win contracts?
by Mustafa Rafat Zaman
Some provincial governments in Canada have negotiated agreements to try to remove barriers to interprovincial migration. I estimate the extent and pattern of these barriers over time and study the effect of the agreements using a gravity model and panel data on interprovincial migration flows during 2000–2015.
by Joe Wallis, Tor Brodtkorb
In 2014, Inwood and Johns analyzed the policy legacy of ten Canadian commissions of inquiry. This article extends that analysis by incorporating the policy legacy as one element of the leadership legacy of the commission chairs; the other two elements are the chair’s expressive legacy and fiduciary legacy.
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COMMENTARY:- Reconnecting the Housing Market to the Labour Market: Foreign Ownership and Housing Affordability in Urban Canada
by Joshua C. Gordon
ARTICLES:- Cost Savings of Housing First in a Non-Experimental Setting
by Ali Jadidzadeh, Nick Falvo, Daniel J. Dutton
- A First Look at Ontario’s Electric Vehicle Incentive Program: Who Are Ontario’s Green Drivers?
by Can Erutku
- Carbon Pricing and Competitiveness Pressures: The Case of Cement Trade
by Vincent Thivierge
- Environmental Impact of Public Transit: Evidence from a Long Strike in Ottawa
by Vincent Chandler, Nikolas Shymko
- Frontier Technologies in Non-Core Automotive Regions: Autonomous Vehicle R&D in Canada
by Greig Mordue, Danish Karmally
- A Policy Framework for E-Money
by Seyed Mohammadreza Davoodalhosseini, Francisco Rivadeneyra
- Want to Improve Math Scores? An Empirical Assessment of Recent Policy Interventions in Canada
by Haizhen Mou, Michael M. Atkinson
- Relative Academic Achievement of International Students: Evidence from an Ontario University
by Zong Jia Chen, Mikal Skuterud
- Parental Employment Effects of Switching from Half-Day to Full-Day Kindergarten: Evidence from Ontario’s French Schools
by Elizabeth Dhuey, Jean Eid, Christine Neill
- Are Pre-Election Polls More Helpful than Harmful? Evidence from the Canadian Case
by Jean-François Daoust, Claire Durand, André Blais
- Reconnecting the Housing Market to the Labour Market: Foreign Ownership and Housing Affordability in Urban Canada