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The distribution of income among seniors in Canada has changed substantially over the past decade, reflecting an …
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cost savings has been to increase the age of eligibility for retirement benefits. In Canada, the March 2012 federal budget … by studying the extent, characteristics, and impact of such exits in Canada. Milligan finds that around 77 percent of … poverty rates since the early 1970s in Canada. The introduction and expansion of retirement income programs – including Old …
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Canada and other countries are changing the age of public pension eligibility. A policy concern that arises is the …
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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 …. Depuis le début des années 1970, le taux de pauvreté des personnes âgées a bien décliné au Canada. On admet souvent que la … 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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In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50. This is potentially complicated by the self-selection of older individuals out of the labour force and into activities such as retirement, preventing observation of their...
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The central objective of this study is to investigate the income sources and patterns of prime-age and older workers who suffer a layoff from steady employment. We focus on a set of cohorts who are deemed to have a high degree of attachment to the labour force preceding the event of an...
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We use data from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey (1999-2002) to assess the take-up of family-friendly benefits that are provided by employers. We distinguish between availability and actual use of benefits to account for worker selection into firms according to benefit availability....
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This paper examines the role of EI in providing support to “displaced workers,†those who permanently lose their jobs because of changing circumstances. Adjusting to change benefits Canadians as a whole. However, some workers suffer much more from job loss than do others. Those who...
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Workers displaced from long-tenure jobs often have difficulty finding new employment and can take a substantial drop in earnings when they find reemployment. These losses are large and persistent, and can easily dwarf the transitory losses from the initial period of nonemployment. Policy...
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Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an “added worker effect†for the earnings of teenagers. However, we find that among...
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