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David A. Green
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Understanding the Link Between Welfare Policy and the Use of Food Banks
Download 400.98 KB34 pages This report examines who uses food banks in Canada and how food bank use relates to changes in government welfare policy.…
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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…
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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…
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Olympic Impacts
Should We Expect an Employment Boom? Download 183.24 KB14 pages
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Minimum wage increase is good public policy
The BC government has asked for input on whether or not to increase the minimum wage, and business groups have responded with a three-pronged attack.…
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Raising the Floor
The Social and Economic Benefits of Minimum Wages in Canada
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