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David A. Green
A $15 minimum wage for BC would put a serious dent in working poverty
BC is a prosperous province in a prosperous country, but we have done a poor job of sharing that prosperity. Inequality in BC has increased substantially over the last 30…
The Case for Increasing the Minimum Wage
What does the academic literature tell us? Download 774.62 KB 12 pages Economist David A Green, a professor and former chair of the Vancouver School of Economics at UBC and…
TFWs Give Firms the Incentive to Create the Wrong Kind of Jobs
The recent controversy over Temporary Foreign Workers (TFWs) highlights that companies can be profitable with very different approaches to wages and worker turnover. On one side of the spectrum are…
Wages, markets and temporary workers
Last November, the Minister of Citizenship and Immigration Canada (CIC) announced a scheme to speed up the processing of temporary workers for Alberta and British Columbia. The Minister appears to…
Canada’s Rich and Poor
Moving in Opposite Directions Download 832.62 KB 20 pages In a study for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA), economist David Green found the gap didn’t grow as much…
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