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 …

income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First …-1995 had, during the 1996-2001 period, much more unstable market income than their counterparts in the top tertile. Fourth … least two-thirds (and up to all) of the differences in instability (measured in terms of proportional income gains …

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 …