By Matthew Lau (AIMS Author) and Marco Navarro-Génie (AIMS President) The new government in New Brunswick faces no shortage of challenges. One of the most important to address is the dearth of business investment in the region. According to data recently released by Statistics Canada, on a per capita basis in 2017, investment in non-residential [...]
Young residents of all four Atlantic provinces have made clear for decades that the best economic opportunities lie outside their home province. For every year since 1985-1986, more young people in their early 20s moved out of each Atlantic province than moved into it from elsewhere in Canada. Over the past two decades, the [...]
Legislating further increases to the minimum wage would likely worsen youth unemployment in Atlantic Canada. Evidence shows that minimum wages price low-skilled persons out of work and reduce the opportunity for training and experience among young people. Given these effects, raising the wage floor is bad policy. New research published by the Atlantic Institute for [...]