Deaton (1979) showed that if preferences are weakly separable in goods and labour quasihomothetic the government imposes an optimal linear progressive tax, commodity taxes redundant. Hellwig (2009) generalized theorem by showing allocation obtained under differential arbitrary income tax is Pareto-dominated one with uniform a reformed tax. We show both extension continue to apply a) implements ...

Keywords: animal personality behavioural syndrome division of labour social spiders task specialization temperament Among factors hypothesized to favour consistent individual differences in behaviour (i.e. personality or behavioural types), the social environment has received relatively little attention. Within-group variation in personality may facilitate the emergence of division of labour, i...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Canada’s immigration system is currently undergoing significant change driven by several goals that include: (1) a desire to improve the economic outcomes of entering immigrants, given the deterioration in labour market outcomes over the past several decades; (2) an attempt to better respond to short-term regional labour market shortages often associated with commodity booms, and (3) a desire t...

Home gardens are important for enhancing food and nutritional security for HIV/AIDS-afflicted rural households through dietary diversity. Female-headed households may depend on home gardens more than average households to supply and supplement the household’s diet when labour is constrained for field cropping. This paper compares household characteristics, dietary diversity, labour allocated to...