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cost savings has been to increase the age of eligibility for retirement benefits. In Canada, the March 2012 federal budget … Age Security (OAS), the Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) and the Canada and Quebec Pension Plans – is often credited …
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Canada and other countries are changing the age of public pension eligibility. A policy concern that arises is the … welfare of those exiting the labour force before the age of pension eligibility. This paper addresses the welfare implications …, and employment-related pension income. …
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domaines ciblés pour économiser a été d’augmenter l’âge de la disponibilité aux prestations de pension. Au Canada, le budget … auront de grandes difficultés avant de pouvoir recevoir leur pension de l’État. Une étude du RCCMTC intitulée  … revenu garanti (SRG) et les régimes de pension du Canada et du Québec, ont permis cette amélioration de la vie des personnes …
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Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
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suggests that workers suffer consequences of low literacy in the form of lower wages, reduced job stability, and even higher …
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non-official languages at work have lower wages than those who use only English at work. …
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This study investigates post-migration educational investment among newly arrived immigrants and examines the effect of post-migration education on new immigrants’ labour market integration, as measured by earnings and occupational status. The results indicate that younger immigrants who...
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the earnings data that has been used in the past. Wages more closely correspond to the price of labour, which is the focus … gender differences in wages with gender differences in decisions of how much to work (i.e., hours). Our results reveal … only 0.72. We also find that as the gender wage ratio has risen, the remaining gap in wages is increasingly unexplained in …
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workers who would enjoy relatively high wages even in the absence of unions. Consequently, the authors argue that reforms in … empirically assess the effect of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of … the informal sector, and on labour tax revenues. The study finds that while minimum wage policy can increase average wages …
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Alors que les adeptes des lois sur le salaire minimum les considèrent comme essentielles pour améliorer le bien-être social et économique, la mise en application des lois sur le salaire minimum peut aussi entraîner une hausse du chômage et un déplacement des travailleurs dans le secteur...
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