This paper examines income instability of lone parents, singles and two-parent families in Canada in the past two … instability among lone parents (especially lone mothers) and unattached individuals over the past 20 years? How do the trends in … earnings instability among lone parents and unattached individuals compare to the trends among the two-parent families? What is …

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role … played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in … Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income intensity was higher in most provinces during the 1990s than during the 1980 …