Showing 1 - 10 of 148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012284995
This paper analyzes the impact of a recent recommendation made by Quebec's Comité consultatif de lutte contre la pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket Measure (MBM). Workers with earnings at least equivalent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013084664
, would have a huge impact. We find that contrary to what is often assumed, guaranteed income schemes may increase poverty …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088707
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010406764
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011954004
. -- Guaranteed Minimum Income ; ex ante evaluation ; labor market effects ; financial cost ; poverty alleviation ; public finance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009721328
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009732741
Public funding of child care (CC) features prominently in the achievement of several social objectives in Quebec and across Canada. This article provides evidence on the impact of three main measures of public CC funding (the provincial tax credit, the federal income tax deduction, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014171321
The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003777918
The paper contributes to the measurement of poverty and vulnerability in three ways. First, we propose a new approach … to separating poverty into chronic and transient components. Second, we provide corrections for the statistical biases … introduced when using a small number of periods to estimate the importance of vulnerability and transient poverty. Third, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003309275