turnover, annual and cumulative earnings, permanent and temporary layoffs, and years of pensionable service. Cohort members are …

The deterioration of immigrants' entry earnings in Canada in the past three decades has been well documented. This … study provides further insights into the changing fortunes of immigrants by focusing on their earnings inequality and … earnings instability. The analysis is based on a flexible econometric model that decomposes earnings inequality into current …

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates …

immigrants to achieve earnings parity with Canadian-born workers. Our results show that today's recent immigrants would have to … experience a drastic rise of their relative age-earnings profile in the near future for their earnings to converge with their … Canadian-born counterparts. The reason is simple: the greater relative earnings growth experienced by cohorts of recent …

achieved during their working years after retirement (income security) is less well understood. To help fill this knowledge gap … various measures of an individual's family income to study four main issues: change in income levels through retirement; the … role that various income sources play in this change; variation in replacement rates through time and between poorer and …

background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading … likelihood of marital instability, but their earnings and incomes are not on average much different from others. …

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings … large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation in earnings across workers and time into a long-run inequality … component between workers and an average earnings instability component over time for workers. The analysis is done for men and …

income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First …We investigate how family earnings instability has evolved between the late 1980s and the late 1990s and how family …, among the subset of families who were intact over the 1982-1991 and 1992-2001 periods, family earnings instability changed …

earnings improved between the 1980s and the 1990s. Of all full-time employees, 5% were low-paid and lived in low income … mothers and persons living alone accounted for fully 71% of all full-time workers in low-paid jobs and in low-income, but only … 37% of all full-time workers. While members of these five groups account for the majority of low-paid workers in low-income …