and of the possibility that higher tax rates in the contemporary period have increased the marginal cost of public funds …

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 …) in that it includes noncash government transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production, and …

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household’s economic well-being was lower in …

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 …

tax and transfer income are much higher and show no downward trend. Osberg attributes the difference between the before … 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 …

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 …