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Life Cycle Bias in the Estimation of Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
Grawe, Nathan D. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
The estimation of intergenerational earnings mobility is rife with measurement problems since the research does not observe permanent, lifetime earnings. Nearly all studies make corrections for mean variation in earnings because of the age differences among respondents. Recent works employ...
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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 … those from intact and bereaved families significantly overstate the impact of divorce across a broad range of outcomes. When … background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading …
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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
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Why Do Children Move into and out of Low Income: Changing Labour Market Conditions or Marriage and Divorce
Zyblock, Miles; Picot, Garnett; Pyper, Wendy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
(2) changes in the parent's labour market conditions (i.e. job loss and gain, changes in hours of work or wages). We find … changes in jobs held by parents. However, changes in family status are relatively infrequent compared to labour market changes …. Parents are much more likely to lose or find jobs, and experience changes in hours worked or wages, than they are to marry or …
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Do Neighbourhoods Influence Long-term Labour Market Success? A Comparison of Adults Who Grew up in Different Public Housing Projects
Oreopoulos, Philip - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002
This paper examines whether long-run labour market outcomes depend on residential environment among adults who grew up … limited. Families that applied for public housing could not specify which project they wished to be housed in and were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005170073
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The Demographic Foundations of Rising Employment and Earnings Among Single Mothers in Canada and the United States, 1980 to 2000
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Myers, Karen; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008
result of changes in labour market behaviour and other unmeasured variables. Overall, demographic changes dominated in Canada …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005695618
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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.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328110
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Intergenerational Influences on the Receipt of Unemployment Insurance in Canada and Sweden
Bjorn, Gustafsson; Gustafsson, Bjorn; Osterberg, Torun; … - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2001
The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had a parent who also collected UI. A major methodological challenge is to determine the extent to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005328138
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All in the Family: A Simultaneous Model of Parenting Style and Child Conduct
Burton, Peter; Phipps, Shelley; Curtis, Lori - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
The upbringing of children is modeled as a modified principal agent problem in which children attempt to maximize their own well-being when faced with a parenting strategy chosen by the parent, to maximize parent's perception of family well-being. Thus, children as well as parents are players,...
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Love and Money: Intergenerational Mobility and Marital Matching on Parental Income
Blanden, Joanne - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005
This paper makes use of matched tax-return data for daughters, their parents, their partners and their partners' parents to investigate the interactions between intergenerational mobility and marital matching for young couples in Canada. We show how assortative mating contributes to...
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