Arthur Sweetman
Arthur Sweetman is a professor in the Department of Economics at McMaster University in Canada, where he holds the Ontario Research Chair in Health Human Resources. His interests focus primarily on empirical economic issues related to the labour market, and especially the health labour market. Beyond health economics, his research includes economic aspects of issues such as: immigration, education, employment insurance, and social policy more broadly.
Recent projects include membership on the government of Ontario’s Long-term Care Staffing Advisory group and co-editing a special issue of the Canadian Journal of Economics focusing on immigration in OECD countries.
Recent Publications
Sweetman, A. 2022. The Migration of Health Professionals to Canada: Reducing Brain Waste and Improving Labour Market Integration (external link) . In, M. Margaret Walton-Roberts (Ed), Global Migration, Gender and Health Professional Credentials: Transnational Value Transfers and Losses. University of Toronto Press, 71-94.
Antonipillai, V., Guindon, G. E., Sweetman, A., Baumann, A., Wahoush, O., & Schwartz, L. (2021). Associations of health services utilization by prescription drug coverage and immigration category in Ontario, Canada (external link) . Health Policy, 125(10), 1311–1321.
Edo, A., Ragot, L., Rapoport, H., Sardoschau, S. Steinmayer, A. & Sweetman, A. 2020. An Introduction to the Economics of Immigration in OECD Countries (external link) . Canadian Journal of Economics 53: 1365-1403.