The Effect of Increasing Aboriginal Educational Attainment on the Labour Force, Output and the Fiscal Balance

Andrew Sharpe, Jean-François Arsenault, Simon Lapointe and Fraser Cowan

No 2009-03, CSLS Research Reports from Centre for the Study of Living Standards

Abstract: Investing in disadvantaged young people is one of the rare public policies with no equity-efficiency tradeoff. Based on the methodology developed in Sharpe, Arsenault and Lapointe (2007), we estimate the effect of increasing the educational attainment level of Aboriginal Canadians on labour market outcome and output up to 2026. We build on these projection to estimate the potential effect of eliminating educational and social gaps between Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people on government spending and government revenues using population and economic projections to 2026.

Keywords: Aboriginal Canadians; educational attainment; labour market; fiscal balance; Indigenous; output; projection; Canada (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009-05
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