ECON 4G03/6G03 - Econometrics II

ECON 761 - (Graduate) Econometrics I

ECON 791- Advanced Topics in Health Economics

 

Selected Previous Teaching:

ECON 2A03 - Economics of Labour Market Issues

ECON 782 - Labour Economics II

 

 

Recent Publications in Refereed Journals and Books:

 

Chami, Nadine and Arthur Sweetman. 2019. “Payment Models in Primary Healthcare: A Driver of the Quantity and Quality of Medical Laboratory Utilization” Health Economics, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1002/hec.3927. 

 

Zhang, Xue and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “Blended capitation and incentives: Fee codes inside and outside the capitated basket” Journal of Health Economics 60, 16-29.

            https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhealeco.2018.03.002;

            https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0167629617304320

 

Thomson, Alexander, Michael Veall and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “Is There Evidence of an Information and Communication Technology Labour Shortage in the Canadian Labour Force Survey?” Canadian Public Policy 44, S1-S12.

 

Truong, N. T. Khuong and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “Basic Information and Communication Technology Skills among Canadian Immigrants and Non-Immigrants” Canadian Public Policy 44, S91–S112.

 

Truong, Khuong and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “The Intergenerational transmission of educational and economic outcomes among immigrants to the United States and Canada” chap. 7 in Catching Up – Country Studies on Intergenerational Mobility and Children of Immigrants, Paris: OECD, 169-200. https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/docserver/9789264301030-en.pdf?expires=1530808060&id=id&accname=ocid177437&checksum=2A725C2C87E3F8B2A1D0DA662BFB8CC2

 

Chami, Nadine, Janet Simons, Arthur Sweetman, and Andrew C. Don Wauchope. 2017. “Rates of inappropriate laboratory test utilization in Ontario” Clinical Biochemistry 50 (15), 822-827. (doi.org/10.1016/j.clinbiochem.2017.05.004). 

 

McLeod, Logan, Gioia Buckley and Arthur Sweetman. 2016. "A Descriptive Study of Ontario Primary Care Models" CMAJ Open, 4(4), E679–688.

 

Webb, Matthew D., Casey Warman and Arthur Sweetman. 2016. “Targeting Tax Relief at Youth Employment” Canadian Public Policy 42 (4): 415–430.

 

Smith, Jeffrey and Arthur Sweetman, 2016. “Viewpoint: Estimating the Causal Effect of Policies and Programs” Canadian Journal of Economics 49 (3): 871–905.

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2016. “The Cultural Determinants of Access to Post-Secondary (Higher) Education in Canada: Empirical Evidence and Policy Implications” in Ben W.A Jongbloed, Hans Vossensteyn (eds). Access and Expansion Post-Massification: Opportunities and Barriers to Further Growth in Higher Education Participation, New York: Routledge, 150–178.

            https://www.routledge.com/products/9780415890441

 

Wang, Chao, Qing Li, Arthur Sweetman, and Jeremiah Hurley. 2015. “Mandatory Universal Drug Plan, Access to Health Care and Health: Evidence from Canada” Journal of Health Economics 44: 80-96.

 

Owusu, Yaw and Arthur Sweetman. 2015. “Regulated Health Professions: Outcomes by place of birth and training” Canadian Public Policy 41 (S1): 98-115.

 

Sweetman, Arthur, James Ted McDonald and Lesleyanne Hawthorne. 2015. “Occupational Regulation and Foreign Qualification Recognition: An Overview” Canadian Public Policy 41 (S1): 1–13.

 

Warman, Casey, Arthur Sweetman and Gustave Goldmann. 2015. “The Portability of New Immigrants’ Human Capital: Language, Education, and Occupational Skills” Canadian Public Policy 41 (S1): 64-79.

 

Sweetman, Arthur and Jan C. van Ours. 2015. “Immigration: What about the Children and Grandchildren?” chapter 21 in B.R. Chiswick and P.W. Miller (eds). Handbook of the Economics of International Migration, Vol. 1b, Amsterdam: Elsevier/North-Holland, 1141-93.

 

Sweetman, Arthur and Casey Warman. 2014. “Former Temporary Foreign Workers and International Students as Sources of Permanent Immigration” Canadian Public Policy 40 (4): 392-407.

 

Leonard, Philip S.J., and Arthur Sweetman. 2014. “Paying the Health Workforce” in Bending the Cost Curve in Health Care: Canada's Provinces in International Perspective, Gregory P. Marchildon and Livio Di Matteo (eds). Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 139-68.

 

Leonard, Philip S.J., Arthur Sweetman, Xue (Helen) Zhang. 2014. “Optometry Services in Ontario: Supply- and Demand-Side Factors from 2011 to 2036” Healthcare Policy 10 (1): 60-72.

 

Sweetman, Arthur. 2014. “The international portability of migrant human capital: Canadian experiences” in Matching Economic Migration with Labour Market Needs, OECD/European Union, OECD Publishing,  http://dx.doi.org/10.1787/9789264216501-en, 229-48.

 

Owusu, Yaw and Arthur Sweetman. 2014. “Immigration and the health-care workforce in Canada since the global economic crisis” in Migration of Health Workers: WHO Code of Practice and the Global Economic Crisis, Amani Siyam and Mario Roberto Dal Poz (eds). Geneva: World Health Organization, 133-57.

 

Warburton, William P., Rebecca N. Warburton, Arthur Sweetman and Clyde Hertzman. 2014. “The Impact of Placing Adolescent Males into Foster Care on Education, Income Assistance, and Convictions” Canadian Journal of Economics 47(1): 35-69.

 

Li, Qing, and Arthur Sweetman. 2014. “The quality of immigrant source country educational outcomes: Do they matter in the receiving country?” Labour Economics 26: 81-93.

 

Grignon, Michel, Yaw Owusu, and Arthur Sweetman. 2013. “The International Migration of Health Professionals” in International Handbook on the Economics of Migration, Amelie F. Constant and Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds). Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar; 75-97.  

 

Wang, Chao and Arthur Sweetman. 2013. “Gender, family status and physician labour supply.” Social Science and Medicine 94: 17-25.

 

Sweetman, Arthur and Casey Warman. 2013. “Canada's Immigration Selection System and Labour Market Outcomes.” Canadian Public Policy 39(s1): 141-160.

 

 

Recent Non-Refereed Publications:

 

Olaizola, Alexia and Arthur Sweetman. 2019. “Brain gain and waste in Canada: Physicians and nurses by place of birth and training”, chapter 7 in Recent Trends in International Migration of Doctors, Nurses and Medical Students, OECD Press: Paris, 123-139. https://doi.org/10.1787/5571ef48-en.

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2019. “Universities must ensure that all students acquire ICT skills” Times Higher Education (14 Feb. 2019). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/universities-must-ensure-all-students-acquire-ict-skills

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “Information and Communication Technology Talent: The Skills We Need—Framing the Issues” Canadian Public Policy 44 Sii-Six.

 

Nielsen, Lars and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “Measuring Physicians’ Incomes with a Focus on Canadian-Controlled Private Corporations” Healthcare Papers 17 (4), 77-86.

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “The cost of studying in Canada requires a higher degree of thought” Times Higher Education (7 June 2018). https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/cost-studying-canada-requires-higher-degree-thought

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2018. “Richer data give the lie to poor completion rates in Canada” Times Higher Education (March 29, 2018).

            https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/richer-data-give-lie-poor-completion-rates-canada#survey-answer

 

Sweetman, Arthur. 2017. “Canada’s Immigration System: Lessons for Europe?” Intereconomics: Review of European Economic Policy, 52 (5): 277-284.

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2017. “Canadian graduates all pass the barista bar” Times Higher Education (Oct 19. 2017).

            https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/canadian-graduates-all-pass-barista-bar

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2017. “Student recruitment needs culture classes” Times Higher Education (July 27, 2017).

            https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/student-recruitment-needs-culture-classes

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2017. “Education is key to integration” Times Higher Education (April 13, 2017).

            https://www.timeshighereducation.com/opinion/education-key-integration

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2017. CD Howe Intelligence Memo “Education is Key to Immigrant Integration in Canada” July 24, 2017: https://www.cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/finnie-mueller-and-sweetman-education-key-immigrant-integration-canada

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2017. CD Howe Intelligence Memo “The Cultural Determinants of Access to Higher Education” August 25, 2017: https://cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/finnie-mueller-and-sweetman-cultural-determinants-access-higher-education

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller and Arthur Sweetman. 2017. CD Howe Intelligence Memo “Debunking the Barista Fallacy: A New Way of Measuring Earnings of University Graduates” October 26, 2017 https://cdhowe.org/intelligence-memos/debunking-barista-fallacy-new-way-measuring-earnings-university-graduates-0

 

El-Assal, Kareem and Arthur Sweetman. 2016. “A Primer on Canada’s Foreign Workers” Ottawa: Conference Board of Canada. Pgs. 1-63. (http://www.conferenceboard.ca/e-library/abstract.aspx?did=8168)

 

OECD. 2016. Better Ways to Pay for Health Care, OECD Health Policy Studies, OECD Publishing, Paris. (Authored by: Divya Srivastava, Michael Mueller and Emily Hewett. Arthur Sweetman and Gioia Buckley drafted sections and provided information on the Canadian system.) http://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issues-migration-health/better-ways-to-pay-for-health-care_9789264258211-en

 

Sweetman, Arthur and Gioia Buckley. 2014. “Ontario’s Experiment with Primary Care Reform” University of Calgary, School of Public Policy Research papers, 7 (11), 1-35. (http://www.policyschool.ucalgary.ca/?q=content/ontarios-experiment-primary-care-reform)

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller, and Arthur Sweetman. 2014. “Beyond Financial Considerations: Culture and Access to Canadian Post-Secondary Education” Public Sector Digest, May-June, 1-14.

 

Edited Books:

 

Slinn, Sara and Arthur Sweetman (eds). 2012. Dynamic Negotiations: Teacher Labour Relations in Canadian Elementary and Secondary Education. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 326 pages.

 

McDonald, Ted, Elizabeth Ruddick, Arthur Sweetman, and Christopher Worswick (eds). 2010. Canadian Immigration: Economic Evidence for a Dynamic Policy Environment.  Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 344 pages. 

 

Finnie, Ross, Marc Frenette, Richard E. Mueller, and Arthur Sweetman (eds). 2010. Pursuing Higher Education in Canada: Economic, Social and Policy Dimensions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 295 pages.

 

Sweetman, Arthur and Jun Zhang (eds). 2009. Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Thirty Years of Reform and Opening Up. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 232 pages.

 

Sweetman, Arthur and Jun Zhang (eds). 2009. Economic Transitions with Chinese Characteristics: Social Change During Thirty Years of Reform. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press, Queen's Policy Studies Series; 216 pages.

The above two books were translated into Chinese and published in 2010 by Fudan University Press as the following single volume.

Sweetman, Arthur，张军 编，2010： 《中国特色的经济转型：理解改革开放时期中国的社会变迁》，上海：复旦大学出版社, 353页

 

Finnie, Ross, Richard E. Mueller, Arthur Sweetman, and Alex Usher (eds). 2008. Who Goes? Who Stays? What Matters? Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 372 pages.

 

Picot, Garnett, Ron Saunders, and Arthur Sweetman (eds). 2007. Fulfilling Potential, Creating Success: Perspectives on Human Capital Development. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 269 pages.

 

Duffin, Jacalyn and Arthur Sweetman (eds). 2006. SARS in Context: Memory, History, Policy. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 206 pages.

 

Beach, Charles, Richard Chaykowski, Sam Shortt, France St‑Hilaire, and Arthur Sweetman (eds). 2006. Health Services Restructuring in Canada: New Evidence and New Directions. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 378 pages.

 

de Broucker, Patrice and Arthur Sweetman (eds). 2002. Towards evidence-based policy for Canadian education/Vers des politiques canadiennes d'éducation fondées sur la recherché. Montreal and Kingston: McGill‑Queen's University Press; 517 pages.