Showing 1 - 10 of 39
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837640
This study examines ethnic based differences in economic and health status. We combine existing literature with our … analysis of data from the Canadian Census and National Population Health Survey. If a given sub-topic is well researched, we …-differentiated. Yet recent immigrants, especially from Asia, are advantaged in health outcomes compared to Canadian-born persons – the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763261
Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763293
Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763392
between population, education, health and social divergence and productivity. In the fourth section, three papers address the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005518911
poverty line measured as one-half median equivalent income after taxes and transfers, for households headed by a person 65 or … over fell from 28.4 per cent in 1973 to 5.4 per cent in 1997, while the poverty gap or income shortfall below the poverty … Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481823
This report presents new estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and its four domains (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds that the IEWB advanced at a 1.20 per cent average...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008489040
authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the … income in Canada during the 1990s. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481815
paper Pierre Fortin discusses trends in Quebec’s real domestic income relative to that in Ontario over the last half …-century. He finds that per capita real domestic income in Quebec, as a percentage of that in Ontario, fell from 78 per cent in … development Fortin seeks to explain is the 12 percentage point increase in Quebec’s per capita real domestic income from 74 per …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481825
The objectives of this report are to examine the characteristics of manufacturing in Atlantic Canada and to shed light on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector. A number of possible factors contributing to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005481843