survey of the state of Canadian economic policy in the areas of pensions and health care. He argues that it is appropriate to … mandatory employment-related system to provide basic replacement income; and a voluntary system supported by provisions that … reduce the double-taxation of saving. The main elements of public policy related to pensions in Canada cover these pillars …

compensate for lower income, increasing consumption potential relative to the non-elderly. In his paper, Malcolm Hamilton uses … elderly and discusses the implications for the design of Canada’s retirement income system. Hamilton notes that there are five … households often support children; devote a significant portion of their income to acquiring and financing consumer durables …

returns due to, for example, the possibilities of job loss, injury and insufficient income in retirement. The index proposed …

topics covered by the papers in this volume include: fiscal federalism, taxation, pensions, international economics …

) in that it includes noncash government transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production, and …We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to … represents the first international comparison based on LIMEW, which differs from the standard measure of gross money income (MI …

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household’s economic well-being was lower in … household’s total command over economic resources in the six years between 1999 and 2005. Although inequality in economic well …

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. …

, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and … the non-labour share (composed of profits, interest and investment income, and incorporated business income) in national … income tend to revert to their historical means over the 1926-2001 historical period, although divergences may last for …