Who Paid for the Canadian Welfare State Between 1955-1988?

Ardeshir Sepehri and Robert Chernomas
Additional contact information
Ardeshir Sepehri: University of Manitoba, Dept. of Economics, Fletcher Argue Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2
Robert Chernomas: University of Manitoba, Dept. of Economics, Fletcher Argue Building, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada R3T 2N2

Review of Radical Political Economics, 1992, vol. 24, issue 1, 71-88

Abstract: This paper attempts to examine the impact of state taxation and expenditure activities on Canadian labor and non-labor. Using state expenditure and revenue data for the period 1955-1986, the Canadian transfer ratio is estimated and then it is compared and contrasted with the transfer ratio for the United States. This inter-country comparison also enables us to isolate the influence of a crisis-induced rise in unemployment on the net transfer from arguments that the social wage grew because of the growing power of labor over capital and the state.

Date: 1992
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://rrp.sagepub.com/content/24/1/71.abstract (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:24:y:1992:i:1:p:71-88

Access Statistics for this article

More articles in Review of Radical Political Economics from Union for Radical Political Economics
Bibliographic data for series maintained by SAGE Publications ().