On April 12, 2017, Professor Joseph Marchand served as an expert witness to the Standing Senate Committee on National Finance regarding the financial implications and regional considerations of Canada's aging population. The committee is preparing a report on the subject which is planned for completion by the end of 2017. The video of this committee meeting is available here: Senate of Canada NFFN Meeting 75.
Professor Marchand specializes in the field of labor and demographic economics. His current research examines how local labor demand shocks, such as an energy boom, can generate labor market responses, such as greater employment and earnings, distributional responses, such as a rise in inequality and a reduction in poverty, and educational responses, such as a reduction in student test scores. His research has been published in the Canadian Journal of Economics, the Handbook of the Economics of Population Aging, the Journal of Economic Surveys, the Journal of Urban Economics, and Labour Economics, with shorter articles appearing in Economics Letters. Joseph also continues to serve as the editor of his department's working paper series and of the New Economics Papers reports for the subjects of labour economics and labor markets - supply, demand, and wages.