L'assimilation economique des immigrants est une preoccupation cle pour les economistes et les responsables de l'elaboration des politiques. De nombreuses etudes portent sur l'assimilation des immigrants en ce qui a trait au revenu. La presente examine la question du point de vue de la richesse...

The economic assimilation of immigrants is a key concern for economists and policy makers. The topic has been widely explored in terms of earnings assimilation of immigrants. Using the 1999 Survey of Financial Security, this study attempts to look at the issue from the wealth perspective....

Discussions of pension adequacy for elderly Canadians have used the rate at which income falls with age; the income replacement rate or the ratio of post-retirement income to pre-retirement income. Use of income streams to assess post-retirement welfare requires a standard against which adequacy...

This paper examines why rates of homeownership have been increasing amongst young higher-income households, but declining among young lower-income households. For the period from 1981 to 2006, household data from the Census of Population, supplemented with information from the Survey of...

Le vieillissement de la population et la recente crise financiere mondiale font ressortir l'importance des discussions concernant le caractere adequat de la preparation a la retraite au Canada et la fiabilite du systeme de revenu de retraite canadien. La presente etude vise a determiner si...

La presente etude porte sur les raisons pour lesquelles les taux d'accession a la propriete ont augmente chez les jeunes menages a revenu eleve, mais ont baisse chez ceux a faible revenu. Les donnees sur les menages pour la periode allant de 1981 a 2006 tirees du Recensement de la population et...

Fonde sur les donnees de l'Enquete sur les depenses des menages et de l'Enquete sur les depenses des familles qui l'a precedee, le present document traite des revenus relatifs des Canadiens a l'age de la retraite et en age de travailler entre 1969 et 2006, en tenant compte a la fois du revenu...

Using data from the Survey of Household Spending and from its predecessor, the Survey of Family Expenditures, this paper investigates the relative incomes of retirement-age and working-age Canadians from 1969 to 2006, taking into account both explicit household income and the implicit income...