Plusieurs articles recents ont souligne la non-linearite de la relation entre le revenu des parents et celui de leurs enfants pour expliquer les contraintes intergenerationnelles considerables au chapitre du credit. Dans le present article, nous soutenons que toute tendance, quelle qu'elle soit,...

Several recent papers have cited non-linearities in the relationship between incomes of parents and their children as evidence of important intergenerational credit constraints. This paper argues that any pattern in the conditional expectation function can be justified by a properly constructed...

The estimation of intergenerational earnings mobility is rife with measurement problems since the research does not observe permanent, lifetime earnings. Nearly all studies make corrections for mean variation in earnings because of the age differences among respondents. Recent works employ...

Between 1993 and 1996 there was a large number of business establishment starts in smaller and larger communities in Canada, indicating significant business establishment development in the post recessionary period of the 1990s. Between 1993 and 1996 smaller communities had a larger ratio of...

Employment in agriculture has changed drastically over the last fifty years. While the share of self-employed farmers has remained relatively stable over that period, the contribution of paid workers and of unpaid family workers to agricultural employment has reversed. Fifty years ago, unpaid...

The share of rural and small town individuals with a computer at home increased from 14 percent in 1989 to 23 percent in 1994. The largest increase was for individuals with at least high school graduation and for individuals in households with total income above $40,000. In 1989, 12 percent of...

Cette etude examine la mesure dans laquelle les caracteristiques des eleves, les ressources et pratiques d?enseignement des ecoles, l?influence des pairs et les effets fixes par province expliquent les differences entre les resultats scolaires des eleves des ecoles secondaires privees et ceux...