Impacts of Informal Caregiving on Caregiver Employment, Health, and Family As the aging population increases, the demand for informal caregiving is becoming an ever more important concern for researchers and policy-makers alike. To shed light on the implications of informal caregiving, this paper reviews current research on its impact on three areas of caregivers’ lives: employment, health, and...

The avian retroviruses E26 and AMV carry mutated versions of the gene encoding the cellular transcription factor c-Myb. Surprisingly, these two mutant forms of Myb differ in the subsets of myeloid cells that they transform, the target genes that they activate, and the way in which they are regulated.

The v-myb- and v-ets-containing E26 retrovirus induces the proliferation of chicken neuroretina (CNR) cells in minimal medium. Proliferation of E26 CNR cells is strongly stimulated by basic fibroblast growth factor (bFGF). The v-myb-containing avian myeloblastosis virus also induces the proliferation of infected CNR cells stimulated by bFGF. Both E26 CNR and avian myeloblastosis virus CNR cells...

Twenty-seven years after switching to a fully-funded privately-managed pension system, Chilean lawmakers are concerned that only 58% of the labor force made contributions in 2000. I develop a dynamic model of the joint husband and wife labor and saving decisions to study whether mandatory contributions affects incentives to choose self-insurance over social insurance. Households face a dual lab...

Evaluation of the Underground Economy in Quebec: A Microeconomic Approach The main purpose of this paper is to estimate the size and the growth of Quebec’s underground economy, and the corresponding loss of taxes for the government. Our approach is based on a method developed by Pissarides and Weber (1989) and extended by Lyssiotou et al. (2004). The basic hypothesis is that individuals can und...

Approximately 16.7% of output in high-income OECD countries is produced informally. Across these countries, the size of the informal economy is positively related to tax rates and negatively related to governance quality. While existing models of the informal economy mostly focus on developing countries, this paper studies the mechanisms behind the informal economy in high-income countries. I b...

The aim of this paper is to quantitatively investigate the interaction between the firms’ choice to operate in the formal or the informal sector and the government policy on taxation and enforcement. Informality is here defined as unregistered firms in legal activities. I develop quantitative theory, in general equilibrium, using the main determinants of informality: taxes, enforcement, regulat...