CIRANO's Reports

In this paper, we consider the public funding of university education in Quebec. The angle chosen is the rarity, which even governments are subject to. Our aim is organized around three questions: how much effort should make Quebec society? How to distribute the burden of this effort among key stakeholders: the students or their families, and governments? What ...

The Ministry of Education, Sport and Leisure (MELS) has awarded more than 2.5 billion dollars annually for the operation of universities. The bulk of this amount, namely 1.5 billion goes to education and the function is divided between the universities according to a predetermined formula. It is this formula that the authors are interested. The results of their analysis seeks to answer the question ...

This study uses data from the follow-up survey of graduates from the class of 2000, conducted in 2005. The objective is to examine the determinants of the correspondence between the curriculum and the completed job obtained by Canadian university graduates. From a perspective of public policy, the question of correspondence between education and employment is relevant in ...

We believe this research yields from employer-sponsored training using data from the Survey of the workplace and employees of Statistics Canada for the period 1999-2004 and investigate whether these returns vary with the age. Although we find that the returns to training in terms of wages vary little by age, we observed a sharp decline ...

In this Burgundy report, the authors have, in a first step, the argument that the government cannot afford the tuition fee freeze. Justify thaw tuition by that argument distorts the debate and can obscure the real problems arising from low tuition and uniforms. Then the authors show how the positive performance of private ...

The RPR system is an effective way to deal with an inevitable thaw tuition in Quebec without compromising access to education. It allows greater efficiency in decision-making in educational choices of students, strengthening links between the labor market and the education sector. The reimbursement system proportional to income (RPR) can serve as a spearhead ...