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 …

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 …