has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two …

may play substantively different roles. The findings suggest that university-going is less common among lower-income … students and members of a visible minority group in the U.S. than among their Canadian counterparts. Some possible reasons are …

Discussions of pension adequacy for elderly Canadians have used the rate at which income falls with age; the income … replacement rate or the ratio of post-retirement income to pre-retirement income. Use of income streams to assess post … example, work-related expenses) can be expected to fall after retirement, a declining income stream does not necessarily …

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use … income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0 ….2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non-parametric techniques uncover significant non …