earnings improved between the 1980s and the 1990s. Of all full-time employees, 5% were low-paid and lived in low income … mothers and persons living alone accounted for fully 71% of all full-time workers in low-paid jobs and in low-income, but only … 37% of all full-time workers. While members of these five groups account for the majority of low-paid workers in low-income …

the gap is generally below $10,000. Various decomposition results indicate that the age of the major income recipient (and … of the spouse for married families) as well as factors affecting permanent income explain a significant portion of the … distribution, however, the wealth gap cannot be explained by the age of the major income recipient, permanent income factors, or …

income inequality among the elderly between the early 1980s and the mid-1990s. In the absence of offsetting trends, the … growing inequality in Canadian families preparedness for retirement implies that that the distribution of family income among …