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Marché du travail en revue - Aout 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Le Supplément de revenu garanti (SRG) a largement contribué à la réduction de la pauvreté des personnes âgées au Canada, mais les futurs bénéficiaires du SRG atteignant leurs 64 ans devraient penser à deux fois avant de continuer de cotiser à un REER. Souvent, la meilleure solution...
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Labour Market Matters - August 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
The Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) has contributed significantly to the reduction of senior poverty in Canada, but prospective GIS recipients should think twice at age 64 about making an RRSP contribution. In many cases, the best move may even be withdrawing the whole RRSP. This is because...
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Income Inequality Among Seniors in Canada: The Role of Women's Labour Market Experience
Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009
disequalizing effects. Increases in women's access to public pensions have had important equalizing effects, while most of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008497085
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The Retirement Income System and the Risks Faced by Canadian Seniors
Milligan, Kevin; Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
In this paper, we use a risk framework to analyze the risks seniors face and discuss the success of Canada’s retirement income system in insuring against these risks. We focus on four types of risk: (i) the risk of low income at the onset of retirement, (ii) longevity risk, (iii) business...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184426
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Impacts of Cyclical Downturns on the Third Pillar of the RIS and Policy Responses
Davies, James B.; Yu, Xiaoyu - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
This paper explores impacts of recessions on private pensions and retirement savings in Canada. We estimate that the … hypothetical economy with a recession once a decade. For DB plans, unemployment caused by recessions can reduce pensions by up to … 25% if it strikes late and reduces final average pay. Early retirement may reduce DB pensions up to 50%. Overall, effects …
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Estimating the Number of Guaranteed Income Supplement Recipients Who Have Mistakenly Saved in Registered Retirement Savings Plans and Registered Pension Plans
Veall, Michael R. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Richard Shillington (1999, 2003) estimates that one-third of near-seniors have made Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSP) contributions in error as their asset holdings are low enough to suggest that they will likely be Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) recipients. Hence they are likely to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184403
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Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach
Jales, Hugo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
This paper proposes a new framework to empirically assess the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country. This approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of the informal sector and on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184384
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Labour Market Matters - November 2014
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014
While proponents argue that minimum wage laws are essential in improving social welfare and economic well-being, implementation of minimum wage laws can also be associated with increased unemployment and the movement of workers into the informal sector where worker protection and workplace...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184464
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Marché du travail en revue - Juin 2013
Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
Malgré une histoire construite avec l’immigration, les immigrants sont les personnes qui ont le plus de difficultés au Canada. D’après une nouvelle recherche récente, la proportion des immigrants récents (au Canada depuis 5 ans ou moins) et qui sont pauvres s’est constamment accrue,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184417
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Retirement Incomes, Labour Supply and Co-residency Decisions of Older Immigrants in Canada: 1991-2006
McDonald, James Ted; Worswick, Christopher - Vancouver School of Economics - 2013
income from private pensions compared with the Canadian born. Immigrants from non-traditional source countries have low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184448