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Why Did Employment and Earnings Rise Among Lone Mothers During the 1980s and 1990s?

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Myers, Karen; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates reached new historic lows. Unlike married mothers, most of the gains among lone mothers were the result of the dynamics of population change and cohort replacement as the large and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328102

The Retirement Plans and Expectations of Non-retired Canadians Aged 45 to 59

Schellenberg, Grant - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This study examines retirement issues for older working Canadians: income, pension coverage, home ownership status, immigration status, marital status and self-assessed health. It uses data from the 2002 General Social Survey.

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Income Security and Stability During Retirement in Canada

Picot, Garnett; Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

Past research has shown that the Canadian pension system is relatively effective in helping seniors to stay out of poverty. However, the extent to which the pension system enables individuals and families to maintain living standards achieved during their working years after retirement (income...

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Death and Divorce: The Long-term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents

Heisz, Andrew; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult incomes and labour market … background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading … labour market outcomes. Adolescents whose parents divorced tend to put off marriage, and once married suffer a greater …

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The Instability of Family Earnings and Family Income in Canada, 1986 to 1991 and 1996 to 2001

Morissette, Rene; Ostrovsky, Yuri - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

We investigate how family earnings instability has evolved between the late 1980s and the late 1990s and how family income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First, among the subset of families who were intact over the...

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Low-paid Work and Economically Vulnerable Families over the Last Two Decades

Picot, Garnett; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

We examine the evolution of low-paid work and the position of economically vulnerable families in Canada over the last two decades. Despite substantial growth in workers' educational attainment and experience, the proportion of jobs paying less than $10.00 per hour has remained fairly stable...

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Social Transfers, Earnings and Low-income Intensity Among Canadian Children, 1981-96: Highlighting Recent Development in Low-income Measurement

Picot, Garnett; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the...

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Family Income and Participation in Post-secondary Education

Zhao, John; Lipps, Garth; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from...

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A Longitudinal Analysis of Earnings Change in Canada

Finnie, Ross; Beach, Charles M. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This paper examines trends in earnings, using tax-based longitudinal data from the last two decades and synthetic cohort analysis.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328172

How Have the Risk of Layoff and Earnings Losses of Laid-off Workers Evolved Since the Late 1970s in Canada?

Qiu, Theresa; Chan, Winnie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2011

This study examines how the risk of job loss and the short-term earnings losses of laid-off workers evolved between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s.

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009393101

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