This paper examines income instability of lone parents, singles and two-parent families in Canada in the past two decades using tax data. We attempt to answer the following questions: Has there been a widespread increase in earnings instability among lone parents (especially lone mothers) and...

La deterioration des resultats economiques chez les nouveaux immigrants arrives au pays durant les annees 1980 et 1990 a suscite de vives inquietudes dans la population et de nombreux debats strategiques. En 1993, de nouvelles modifications ont ete apportees aux procedures de selection des...

The deteriorating economic outcomes among immigrants entering during the 1980s and 1990s have prompted much public concern and policy debate. In 1993, immigrant selection procedures were further modified to increase immigrants' educational attainment and the share of immigrants in the "skilled"...

Using data from the 1976-to-1997 Survey of Consumer Finances and the 1993-to-2004 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, we examine developments in family income inequality, income polarization, relative low income, and income redistribution through the tax-transfer system. We conclude that...

Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee : L'effet des conditions macroeconomiques sur l'instabilite et l'inegalite a long terme des gains des travailleurs au Canada. Le present document porte sur la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de...

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings variability has varied in terms of the unemployment rate and real gross domestic product (GDP) growth over this period. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation...

Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach....

Avant 1989, les beneficiaires sans enfants de l'aide sociale au Quebec qui etaient ages de moins de 30 ans touchaient des prestations beaucoup moins elevees que les beneficiaires ages de plus de 30 ans. Nous utilisons cette discontinuite precise dans la politique pour estimer les effets de...

Nous presentons de nouveaux resultats concernant les niveaux et les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu apres impot au Canada au cours de la periode allant de 1980 a 2000. Nous soutenons que les sources de donnees existantes ne revelent pas necessairement les variations dans les queues de la...

Le present document porte sur la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de 1982 a 1997 et sur l'evolution de cette variabilite en fonction du taux de chomage et de la croissance du produit interieur brut (PIB) reel durant cette periode. En utilisant un grand panel de donnees fiscales,...