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, stocks of wealth, economic equality, and economic security) for 14 OECD countries for the 1980-2009 period. It finds that in …
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, stocks of wealth, economic equality and economic security) for Canada and the provinces for the 1981-2010 period. It finds … GDP per capita. Both the consumption and wealth domains experienced solid advances over the period, but these developments … for Canada, driven by declines in wealth and economic security. …
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This report presents estimates of the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-Being (LIMEW) for a representative sample of Canadian households in 1999 and 2005. The results indicate that there was only modest growth in the average Canadian household’s total command over economic resources in...
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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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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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, 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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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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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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, 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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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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