CSLS-IRPP Conference on the Linkages Between Economic Growth and Inequality

A major public conference organised jointly by the Institute for Research on Public Policy and the Centre for the Study of Living Standards, with two objectives: to bring the most recent research on the linkages between economic growth and inequality 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 on growth, inequality and their linkages. Six sessions covered trends in inequality and growth in Canada, the theoretical roots of growth-inequality linkages, demographics and non-working time, institutional change, technical change, and public policy, with a closing panel on policy implications. Luncheon and dinner addresses were given by Robert Frank, Gary Burtless and Pierre Fortin. Selected papers were published in revised form in the January 2003 Canadian Public Policy supplement (see JS-02).