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The Impact of Productivity Growth on Government Fiscal Balances

Dungan, Peter - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

In this chapter, Peter Dungan investigates the sensitivity of Canadian government fiscal balances to alternative long-run productivity growth rates using elements of the FOCUS macroeconometric model to conduct simulations on a 'base-case' projection of the Canadian economy, and of its fiscal...

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Are the Kids All Right? Intergenerational Mobility and Child Well-being in Canada

Corak, Miles - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

underlying causes and effects. Corak finds that, except for those families who are very well off and able to transfer wealth to …

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Poverty Among Senior Citizens: A Canadian Success Story

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS)

Lars Osberg makes the case in his paper that the major success story of Canadian social policy in the twentieth century has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the poverty line measured as one-half median equivalent...

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Human Well-being and Economic Well-being: What Values Are Implicit in Current Indices?

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2003

This paper develops an Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) for the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Germany, Norway and Sweden for the period 1980 to 2001 which recognizes four components: Current effective per capita consumption flows; Net societal accumulation of stocks of...

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Living Standards Domain of the Canadian Index of Wellbeing

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

examines trends in average and median income and wealth indicators in Canada. Part two looks at the distribution of the income … and wealth of Canadians over time, including trends in poverty. Part three discusses trends in income fluctuations or … quintile has received the lion’s share of rising income and wealth. Looking at the nine headline indicators for which time …

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Trends in Economic Well-being in Canada in the 1990s

Osberg, Lars; Sharpe, Andrew - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS); The …

-being (consumption flows, stocks of wealth, income equality, and economic security) from the lens of the Index of Economic Well-being, a …

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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Selected OECD Countries, 1981 - 2007

Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2007 period. It finds that in …

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Measuring Economic Security in Insecure Times: New Perspectives, New Events, and the Index of Economic Well-being

Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report has two main objectives. The first is to outline the development of the methodology for the measurement of economic security in the Index of Economic Well-being (IEWB) and to provide updated estimates of the Index of Economic Security over the 1980-2007 period for seven developed...

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The Economic Crises Through the Lens of Economic Well-being

Sharpe, Andrew; Arsenault, Jean-François - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

This report looks at how the economic crisis has unfolded in Canada and what will be the impacts on economic wellbeing. The shortfall is estimated to be approximately $12,000 ($2007) per capita. In other words, given no economic crisis, GDP per capita in Canada would have likely been $1,736...

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New Estimates of the Index of Economic Well-being for Canada and the Provinces, 1981 - 2008

Sharpe, Andrew; Osberg, Lars - Center for the Study of Living Standards (CSLS) - 2009

, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2008 period. It finds … GDP per capita. Both the consumption and wealth domains experienced solid advances over the period, but these developments …

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