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Dr. Tammy Schirle 🍺 Profile picture
Dr. Tammy Schirle 🍺
@tammyschirle
Professor of Economics at Wilfrid Laurier University, feminist and fiscalist. I think about labour markets, especially retirement.
Apr 27, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
With today’s census release, people are asking about implications of population aging.

A few things I keep in mind…
There’s nothing new here. People are living longer (yay!) But old people are expensive (yikes), and there will be more of them. (Sorry, but it’s kinda that simple. Don’t @ me)
Apr 19, 2021 • 18 tweets • 5 min read
Going to spot a few good threads here

First, @JenniferRobson8 will have EI/Childcare/ tons of other stuff covered
@JenniferRobson8 terrible sentence, I know. Oh well.
Nov 19, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Today I joined @CBCOntarioToday to talk about the remarkably high savings rates among CDN households in the 2nd quarter. Some notes…
cbc.ca/listen/live-ra… 1. What prompted this: CIBC Economics put out this report

Excess cash
economics.cibccm.com/economicsweb/c…

So what’s going on?
Nov 18, 2020 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Let’s consider the possibility the schools’ winter break is extended... what do parents need clear communication about?

I’ll start a list here...

cbc.ca/news/canada/to… First, for parents that will need the time off work, and probably use any vacation possible, is there job protection?
Aug 5, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Spent some time today on media questions about women’s job losses, one asked about the focus on reopening schools. I’ll repeat one point here:

I find the lack of investment here incredibly surprising…. 1/n First, we’re investing in a generation of kids, and it looks like they really need some public investment right now. 2/n
Jun 17, 2020 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
I do find good nuanced twitter convos possible, but challenging sometimes. So today I’ll try again.

On work incentives, once again... First, we all agree that several things play a role in the decision to work and the choices we need to make. We just tend to focus on different parts at different times. So, I’ll try to get through a few here…
Jun 8, 2020 • 16 tweets • 5 min read
Happy Monday! Our new working paper - with myself, @mikalskuterud @kevinmilligan and Thomas Lemieux @ubcVSE is up: Initial Impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic on the Canadian Labour Market. Some highlights… We describe the impact of the #COVID19 pandemic on the CDN labour market, at its worst, mostly comparing February and April 2020. The headline: Aggregate weekly hours worked plummeted
Apr 28, 2020 • 24 tweets • 4 min read
A short twitter course on frameworks economists often use.

When combined with a crappy & uninformed perspective, the incentives language we use tends to be misrepresented, & economists can look pretty evil. So yes, it’s a bit of a rant. Bear with me, this will take a while… There’s 4 parts:
1. The general framework
2. On work decisions
3. On profit maximization
4. On crappy people that I think suck.

I promise you’ll be bored.
Mar 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Some key points to make at the end of a very overwhelming week:

1. First priority is managing the public health crisis. This week’s income support announcements are addressing gaps in our social safety net to make the decision to stay home easier 2. If your job has been affected, check with Employment Insurance first. You might qualify for regular, sickness, or caregiving benefits. Get your record of employment. Apply ASAP.
Nov 14, 2019 • 17 tweets • 3 min read
Who wants a short lesson on the CPP formula and how subsidies across individuals come about? The CPP cross-subsidies I’ll look for:
1. To older generations (worked in 70s and 80s)
2. Taking time out for kids
3. Unemployment or education spells

A simplified CPP formula:
Annual benefit =
Replacement rate
x average Earnings/YMPE ratio
x Recent YMPE
Nov 11, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
While I wait for some serious analysis that might justify the idea there are benefits to Albertans, I have thought the idea of an APP is an interesting academic exercise.

Eg. In 1966, was AB expecting a demographic advantage? In 1966, 35% of the male population was ages 0-14 in AB. In ON, this was 32%.
Nov 6, 2019 • 16 tweets • 2 min read
Started reading "Checking out of the Hotel California" on the desirability of an Alberta Pension Plan, by Herb Emery and Ken McKenzie. A good place to start if we want to understand why AB would want to pursue this. A few notes to start Note, this was published in 2000, so mostly written and revised by 1999. Many things have changed since then, but I get the impression some things have not...
Oct 7, 2019 • 12 tweets • 6 min read
I’m likely watching tonight’s #elxn43 debate on @CPAC_TV cpacvote2019.ca . With that in mind I made a bit of a list: What I’d like to see discussed for #elxn43

A lot of #cdnecon, and a bit of other policy too. What I’d like to see discussed for #elxn43
Progressive taxation:
Nov 8, 2018 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
There are points in these documents worth emphasizing:
“Statistics Canada will use the information for statistical purposes only…. Under no circumstances will the personal information obtained from financial institutions be used to perform credit, ….”
1/ “Under no circumstances… used to perform credit, expenditure or income check on individual Canadians.”
“Statistics Canada will only make anonymized, aggregated statistical information on Canadian households publicly available an as such…”
2/
Aug 23, 2018 • 14 tweets • 13 min read
Released today @CDHoweInstitute :

Rich Man, Poor Man: The Policy Implications of Canadians Living Longer,
by @kevinmilligan @ubcVSE & @tammyschirle @LazaridisSchool

cdhowe.org/public-policy-…

Here’s the highlights… @CDHoweInstitute @kevinmilligan @ubcVSE @LazaridisSchool Since 1965, men have gained 7.7 years of life after age 50! Women have gained 6.4 years! That’s worth looking at more seriously.
1/
Apr 6, 2018 • 10 tweets • 1 min read
I make my students write term papers, which means I have to mark them. Here’s a few tips for Econ students: Term papers:
1 Never assume your word document looks the same on someone else’s computer