Who was Barbara Mitchell?
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Highly Educated Immigrants: Economic Contributions and Implications for Public Policy

Highly Educated Immigrants: Economic Contributions and Implications for Public Policy finds that Canada is successful at welcoming educated immigrants every year, but when it comes to the most educated immigrants around the world—those with PhDs—the United States remains a more attractive destination. In fact, from 2006 to 2016, approximately 1.5 per cent of immigrants to Canada had PhDs , compared to more than two per cent for the U.S.

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Assessing Canada's Energy Sector Competitiveness: Collected Essays

Assessing Canada’s Energy Sector Competitiveness is a new collection of essays that highlights how several government policies have weakened Canada’s ability to attract investment in the energy sector, all the while investment in the United States has soared.

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Universal Insurance for Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland and the Netherlands

Universal Insurance for Pharmaceuticals in Switzerland and the Netherlands is a new study that highlights positive reform lessons from Switzerland and the Netherlands—two countries that provide universal access to high-quality health care with shorter wait times, greater availability of medical resources, and often superior outcomes compared to Canada. And importantly, both countries also maintain universal coverage for pharmaceuticals.

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Technology, Automation, and Employment

Technology, Automation, and Employment: Will this Time be Different? is a new essay series that finds despite dire predictions, burgeoning technologies (including automation, artificial intelligence and robotization) will likely not lead to substantial job losses in Canada and beyond.

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Private Sector Capital Expenditures in Canada: An Industry-Level Analysis finds that business investment has recently declined in two-thirds of the non-government sectors that make up the Canadian economy, representing the most severe drop in investment in at least 30 years, a period that includes several recessions. Crucially, business investment is key to raising living standards and increasing economic prosperity for Canadians.

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Report Card on British Columbia's Secondary Schools 2019

The Report Card on British Columbia’s Secondary Schools, 2019 rates more than 250 public and independent secondary schools based on seven academic indicators using student results from annual provincewide exams, grade-to-grade transition rates, and graduation rates. The Report Card provides parents with information they can’t easily get anywhere else. In addition to five years of academic results, the Report Card also shows which schools are improving or falling behind.

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Revenue Effects of Tax Rate Increases on High-Income Earners

Revenue Effects of Tax Rate Increases on High-income Earners spotlights the federal government’s top personal income tax rate increase (from 29 per cent to 33 per cent), which took effect in 2016. And compares the effects of the tax increase on federal government revenue based on two scenarios—if there were no behavioural responses from taxpayers and if taxpayers responded by changing their behaviour.

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