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Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Milligan, Kevin; Lemieux, Thomas - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

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....

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Effets incitatifs associes a l'aide sociale : approche de discontinuite de la regression

Milligan, Kevin; Lemieux, Thomas - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

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...

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Nouvelle analyse des tendances recentes de l'inegalite du revenu apres impot au Canada au moyen des donnees de recensement

Green, David A.; Milligan, Kevin; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

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...

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Revisiting Recent Trends in Canadian After-Tax Income Inequality Using Census Data

Green, David A.; Milligan, Kevin; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

We present new evidence on levels and trends in after-tax income inequality in Canada between 1980 and 2000. We argue … that existing data sources may miss changes in the tails of the income distribution, and that much of the changes in the … income distribution have been in the tails. Our data are constructed from Census files, which are augmented with predicted …

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Rising Income Inequality in the 1990s: An Exploration of Three Data Sources

Picot, Garnett; Green, David A.; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This study investigates trends in family income inequality in the 1980s and 1990s, with particular attention paid to …

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Croissance de l'inegalite du revenu pendant les annees 1990 : exploration de trois sources de donnees

Picot, Garnett; Green, David A.; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

Dans cette etude, on examine les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu familial durant les annees 1980 et 1990, en accordant une attention particuliere a la periode de reprise economique des annees 1990.

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