Canadian Public Policy – Special Issue on the Linkages Between Economic Growth and Inequality

Abstract

In January 2001 the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Centre for the Study of Living Standards organised a major public conference in Ottawa on the linkages between economic growth and inequality. Its objectives were to bring the most recent research on growth-inequality linkages in developed economies — with particular reference to Canada and the United States — to the attention of policy makers, and to open a public debate about the choices facing Canadian society. The articles in this special issue of Canadian Public Policy are revised versions of selected papers from that conference, covering low-income intensity, earnings variability, the theoretical roots of growth-inequality linkages, behavioural models of growth, social protection, age structure, labour supply, and the role of monetary policy.

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