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Using Statistics Canada's National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), this paper presents the first evidence on whether increased disability benefits reduce the negative consequences of parental disability on children’s well-being. Using a continuous...
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The Universal Child Care Benefit (UCCB) represents one of the largest transfer programs administered by the Canadian government, representing 4.5 percent of federal transfers to individuals. The UCCB – which provides $100 monthly to parents for every child under six years of age –...
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long terme en leur procurant des occasions de formation et d’éducation. Une étude par les membres affiliés du RCCMTC Chris …
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September 2012: Labour Market Matters Addressing welfare and social assistance dependency The Canadian Labour Market … month’s issue examines different approaches to addressing welfare and social assistance dependency. It is often a struggle … achieving low government costs in the structuring of income assistance (welfare) policies. In recent years governments in Canada …
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“Increasing Inequality is Unbalanced Growth: Evidence from North America†(CLSRN Working Paper no. 102) by CLSRN … still faced with clear evidence of growing income inequality in Canada, Veall outlines three policy priorities aimed to …
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Increasing inequality cannot be a long-run steady state – i.e. a trend that can continue indefinitely. Because the … United States, increasing economic instability is thus a necessary implication of increasing inequality. However, in Mexico …, increased female employment and declining birthrates have helped Mexico reduce inequality (albeit from a high level) in recent …
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L’inégalité des revenus s’est considérablement accrue depuis les années 1980, la part des revenus du 1 % le plus riche augmentant de 27 % entre 1980 et 2005. Alors que cet écart croissant entre les riches et les pauvres est inquiétant, les membres affiliés du RCCMTC Abigail Payne...
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Income inequality has risen significantly since the 1980s, with the share of income among the top 1% increasing by 27 … as income inequality rises in a new study entitled “Does Income Inequality Increase Charitable Giving?†(CLSRN Working … Paper no. 150). The study finds that rising income inequality results in overall increases in charitable giving. During the …
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? The theoretical prediction of the effects of income inequality on giving is unclear. We study how changes in income … inequality measured at the neighbourhood and municipality levels affect charitable giving by households in Canada between 1991 … and 2006. We find that increases in inequality increase giving. Results are sensitive to the geographic dispersion of low …
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Profitability at a period of time is defined as the value of outputs produced by a production unit divided by the corresponding cost. Using some earlier work by O’Donnell, the paper provides a decomposition of profitability growth over two periods into various explanatory factors. The...
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