Social and Economic Dimensions of an Aging Population Research Papers

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249: Older Aboriginal Peoples in Canada – Demographics, Health Status and Access to Health Care

Mark W. Rosenberg, Kathi Wilson, Sylvia Abonyi, Adam Wiebe, Kelsey Beach and Robert Lovelace

248: Cancer-related health behaviors and health service use among Inuit and other residents of Canada’s north

James McDonald and Ryan Trenholm

247: Cohort Working Life Tables for Older Canadians

Frank T. Denton, Christine Feaver and Byron Spencer

246: How should we support pharmaceutical innovation?

Paul Grootendorst

245: New Evidence on Taxes and Portfolio Choice

Sule Alan, Kadir Atalay, Thomas Crossley and Sung-Hee Jeon

244: Where Would You Turn For Help? Older Adults’ Knowledge and Awareness of Community Support Services

Margaret Denton, Jenny Ploeg, Joseph Tindale, Brian Hutchison, Kevin Brazil, Noori Akhtar-Danesh and Monica Quinlan

243: Car Driving and Public Transit Use in Canadian Metropolitan Areas: Focus on Elderly and Role of Health and Social Network Factors

Ruben G. Mercado and Bruce Newbold

242: The Impact of Skill Mismatch among Migrants on Remittance Behaviour

James McDonald and Maria Rebecca Valenzuela

241: Financial Security of Elders in China

Yang Cheng and Mark Rosenberg

240: Basic Living Expenses for the Canadian Elderly

Bonnie-Jeanne MacDonald, Doug Andrews and Robert L. Brown

239: Negative Effects of the Canadian GIS Clawback and Possible Mitigating Alternatives

Diana Chisholm and Robert L. Brown

238: Determinants of Mammography Usage across Rural and Urban Regions of Canada

James McDonald and Angela Sherman

237: Pension Benefit Insurance and Pension Plan Portfolio Choice

Thomas Crossley and Mario Jametti

236: Income Security and Stability During Retirement in Canada

Sébastien LaRochelle-Côté, John Myles and Garnett Picot

235: Policy Change in the Canadian Welfare State: Comparing the Canada Pension Plan and Unemployment Insurance

Daniel Béland and John Myles

234: Visiting and Office Home Care Workers’ Occupational Health: An Analysis of Workplace Flexibility and Worker Insecurity Measures Associated with Emotional and Physical Health

Isik U. Zeytinoglu, Margaret Denton, Sharon Davies, M. Bianca Seaton and Jennifer Millen

233: Grand Coalitions for Unpopular Reforms: Building a Cross-Party Consensus to Raise the Retirement Age

Martin Hering

232: The Politics of Social Policy Reform in the United States: The Clinton and the W. Bush Presidencies Reconsidered

Daniel Béland and Alex Waddan

231: What is Retirement? A Review and Assessment of Alternative Concepts and Measures

Frank T. Denton and Byron Spencer

230: Ethnic Differences in Health: Does Immigration Status Matter?

Karen M. Kobayashi, Steven Prus and Zhiqiu Lin

229: Age-specific Income Inequality and Life Expectancy: New Evidence

Steven G. Prus and Robert L. Brown

228: An Application of Price and Quantity Indexes in the Analysis of Changes in Expenditures on Physician Services

Frank T. Denton, Christine Feaver and Byron Spencer

227: Using Statistics Canada LifePaths Microsimulation Model to Project the Health Status of Canadian Elderly

Jacques Légaré and Yann Décarie

226: Exploring the Effects of Aggregation Error in the Estimation of Consumer Demand Elasticities

Frank T. Denton and Dean C. Mountain

225: The Role of Coping Humour in the Physical and Mental Health of Older Adults

Elsa Marziali, Lynn McDonald and Peter Donahue

224: Assessing Alternative Financing Methods for the Canadian Health Care System in View of Population Aging

Doug Andrews

223: Creating the Canada/Quebec Pension Plans: An Historical and Political Analysis

Kristina Babich and Daniel Béland

222: Cognitive functioning and labour force participation among older men and women in England

David Haardt

221: The life expectancy gains from pharmaceutical drugs: a critical appraisal of the literature

Paul Grootendorst, Emmanuelle Piérard and Minsup Shim

220: An Evaluation of the Working Income Tax Benefit

William Scarth and Lei Tang

219: Looking for Private Information in Self-Assessed Health

James Banks, Thomas Crossley and Simo Goshev

218: The Use of Behavior and Mood Medications by Care-recipients in Dementia and Caregiver Depression and Perceived Overall Health

Mark Oremus, Hossein Yazdi and Parminder Raina

217: Caregiver Employment Status and Time to Institutionalization of Persons with Dementia

Mark Oremus and Parminder Raina

216: The Impact of Immigration on the Labour Market Outcomes of Native-born Canadians

Jiong Tu

215: A review of instrumental variables estimation in the applied health sciences

Paul Grootendorst

214: Is Foreign-Owned Capital a Bad Thing to Tax?

William Scarth

213: A Note on Income Distribution and Growth

William Scarth

212: "Midlife Crises": Understanding the Changing Nature of Relationships in Middle Age Canadian Families

Karen M. Kobayashi

211: Explaining the Health Gap Between Canadian- and Foreign-Born Older Adults: Findings from the 2000/2001 Canadian Community Health Survey

Karen M. Kobayashi and Steven Prus

210: La prèparation financière à la retraite des premiers boomers: une comparaison Québec-Ontario

Long Mo and Jacques Légaré

209: Aging, Gender and Neighbourhood Determinants of Distance Traveled: A Multilevel Analysis in the Hamilton CMA

Ruben Mercado and Antonio Páez

208: The Roles of Ethnicity and Language Acculturation in Determining the Interprovincial Migration Propensities in Canada: from the Late 1970s to the Late 1990s

Xiaomeng Ma and Kao-Lee Liaw

207: Ordinary Least Squares Bias and Bias Corrections for iid Samples

Lonnie Magee

206: Immigration, Ethnicity and Cancer in U.S. Women

James McDonald and Jeremiah Neily

205: Who Minds the Gate? Comparing the role of non physician providers in the primary care division of labour in Canada & the U.S

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

204: Professional Work in Health Care Organizations: The Structural Influences of Patients in French, Canadian and American Hospitals

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, Ivan Sainsaulieu, Patricia Khokher and Kristine Hirschkorn

203: Relatively Inaccessible Abundance: Reflections on U.S. Health Care

Ivy Lynn Bourgeault

202: When Bad Things Happen to Good People: The Economic Consequences of Retiring to Caregive

P. Lynn McDonald, T. Sussman and Peter Donahue

201: Effects of 'Authorized-Generics' on Canadian Drug Prices

Paul Grootendorst

200: Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance - An Overview of Theory and Empirics

Mario Jametti