Registration

Opening
- Executive Director (TBA), Policy Research Initiative
- Chad Gaffield, President, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada

Links Between Social Policy and Economic Outcomes

Chair
- TBC

Panelists
“Skill Formation and Economic Outcomes”
- Craig Riddell, University of British Columbia and CLSRN

“Social Policy and the Well-being of Young Families”
- Evelyne Lapierre Adamcyk, Université de Montréal and PCPP

“Social Investment, the Life-Course and the Competitiveness of Societies”
- Paul Bernard, Université de Montréal and LC

Break

Formal Responses to the Panel

- Andrew Sharpe, Centre for the Study of Living Standards
- Peter Hicks, Assistant Deputy Minister, Human Resources and Social Development Canada

Precarious Families and Income Inequality

Introduction
- Roderic Beaujot, University of Western Ontario and PCPP

Guest Speaker
- John Myles, University of Toronto and CLSRN

Spotlight on PWFC Research: Part I
Concurrent Sessions

Immigration and Earnings

“The Effect of Immigration on Nonimmigrant Wage Levels and Immigrant-Nonimmigrant Wage Differences in Canadian Metropolitan Labour Markets”
- Richard Wanner, University of Calgary and PCPP

“The Immigrant Earnings Gap in Canada: A Longitudinal Cohort-Based Analysis”
- Ross Finnie, Queen’s University and CLSRN

Transitions to Work

“Links Between Knowledge and Work and Appropriateness of Education”
- Jake Murdoch, Université de Montréal and LC

“Employment Activation Programs in France ”
- Stéphane Moulin, Université de Montréal and LC

Participating in Society

“Social Participation Over the Life-Course”
- Stéphanie Gaudet, University of Ottawa and LC

“Dynamic Effects of Childcare Subsidies: the Case of the Five Dollar per Day Child Care Policy in the Province of Quebec, Evidence From the SLID”
- Philip Merrigan, Pierre Lefebvre, Matthieu Verstraete, UQAM, CIRPÉE and CLSRN

Children, Families and Upward Mobility

“Family Change and Children's Behaviour”
- Zheng Wu, University of Victoria and PCPP

“Intergenerational Economic Mobility in the Ontario Child Health Study”
- Martin Dooley, McMaster University, CLSRN and PCPP

Poster Session

“Unmet Needs for Primary Care in a Context of Universal Healthcare: The Case of Québec”
- Hani Guend, Université de Québec, INRS and PCPP
- Anne Laure Tesseron, Université de Montréal

“The Healthy Immigrant Effect: The Importance of Source and Destination Countries”
- Ted MacDonald, University of New Brunswick and CLSRN

“The Effects of Technological Change on Life-Cycle Human Capital Investment”
- Xueda Song, York University and CLSRN

“Planning for PEI’s Aging Population”
- Ron Kelly, Seniors’ United Network
- Dr. Judy-Lynn Richards, UPEI and PCPP
- Jill Wakelin, Seniors’ Secretariat Office, Government of PEI
- Dr. Bernice Bell, UPEI and PCPP

“Will Family Physicians Earn More by Switching their Payment Model? Experimental Evidence from Canada”
- David Gray, University of Ottawa and CLSRN

Spotlight on PWFC Research: Part II
Concurrent Sessions

Immigration Experiences

“The Sources of Differentiation in the Immigrant Housing Market: Insights from the Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada”
- Michael Haan, University of Alberta and PCPP

“The Wage Disadvantage of Visible Minority Immigrant Males: What is the Effect of Work Experience?”
- Michael Smith, McGill University and CLSRN

Population Aging

“Career Trajectories in Informational Technology Employment”
- Julie McMullin, Tammy Duerden Comeau, Emily Jovic, Workforce Aging in the New Economy Project and University of Western Ontario

“Approaches to Improving Projection Models of Chronic Home Care Needs for Elderly Canadians”
- Janice Keefe, Mount Saint Vincent University and PCPP
- Jacques Légaré, Université de Montréal and PCPP

Retirement Transitions

“Health, Pensions, and the Retirement Decisions of Canadians”
- Tammy Schirle, Wilfrid Laurier University and CLSRN

“Bridge Employment in the Transition to Retirement”
- Benoît-Paul Hébert, Senior research advisor, Human Resources and Social Development Canada
- May Luong, Analyst, Human Resources and Social Development Canada

“Anticipated Retirement and Return to the Labour Market”
- André Léonard, Research officer, Human Resources and Social Development Canada
- Bruno Rainville, Senior research officer, Human Resources and Social Development Canada

Personal Re-employment and Individual Training Accounts
- Speakers, TBC

Life-course Flexibility, Economic Security and Economic Efficiency

Chair
- Barbara Glover, Director General, Human Resources and Social Development Canada

“Economic Security in Future Labour Markets: Changes and Challenges”
- Terrance Hunsley, Senior Project Director, Policy Research Initiative
- Speaker, TBC

Break

Competitiveness and Economic Performance

Introduction
- Paul Bernard, Université de Montréal

"Institutional Competitiveness and the Global Economy"
- John L. Campbell, Dartmouth College , USA
- Speaker, TBC

Poster Session

See list of posters on Day 1

Revealing the Research Gaps

Chair
- Sonia L'Heureux, Director General, Human Resources and Social Development Canada

Presenters
- Jean-Pierre Voyer, Executive Director, Social Research and Demonstration Corporation
- Garnet Picot, Director General, Statistics Canada
- Speaker, TBC

Commentaries
- Mel Cappe, President, Institute for Research on Public Policy
- Commentator, TBC