This special issue of Canadian Public Policy is dedicated to Professor Charles M. Beach. Charles Beach career as professor of Economics at Queen's University spanned four decades, from 1972 through 2012, and continues thereafter as Professor Emeritus. He is recognized across Canada as a leading researcher and authority in the areas of income inequality and immigration.

This special issue brings policy-relevant empirical analyses in areas that intersect with Charles's research interests in the labour market, including the broad themes of income, immigration, and inequality. The papers span a variety of policy-relevant aspects of these themes including: labour market outcomes in Quebec; population growth inequality; university characteristics and labour market outcomes; immigration policy and training; immigration policy design and labour market outcomes; inter-generational education mobility among immigrant children, affirmative action quotas and skills acquisition; social networks and labour market outcomes, and the incidence of the Guaranteed Income Supplement in the retired population. The fact that many of the authors of these paper are former graduate students of Charles's is a testament to the significant impact he has had in mentoring generations of economics researchers in Canada.

Francois Vaillancourt, Julien Tousignant, Joëlle Chatel-DeRepentigny and Simon Coutu-Mantha: Revenus de travail et attributs linguistiques au Québec, 2005

Fazley Siddiq and Shira Babins: Trends in Population Growth Inequality across Subnational Jurisdictions in Canada 

Julian Betts, Christopher Ferrall and Ross Finnie: The Role of University Characteristics in Determining Post-Graduation Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Recent Canadian Cohorts

Ross Finnie, David Gray and Zhang Yan: Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) Status Amongst the Retired Population: An Analysis of the Incidence

Christopher Worswick and Ted McDonald: Intergenerational Implications of Immigration Policy on the Distribution of Education: Apprenticeship Training in Canada

Arthur Sweetman and Casey Warman: Canada's Immigration Section System and Labour Market Outcomes

Abdurrahman Aydemir, Wen-Hao Chen and Miles Corak: Intergenerational education mobility among the children of Canadian immigrants

Nick Feltovich, Lata Gangadharan and Michael P. Kidd: Implementation and removal of an affirmative-action quota: The impact on task assignment and workers' skill acquisition

Steven Lehrer and Adnan Khan: The Impact of Social Networks on Labour Market Outcomes: New Evidence from Cape Breton

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