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Replacing Family Income During the Retirement Years : How Are Canadians Doing?

LaRochelle-Côté, Sébastien - 2011

This paper examines the extent to which family income during working years is "replaced" during the retirement years … rate of 0.8). Replacement rates in retirement are negatively correlated with income earned around age 55. Median … quintile. In retirement, public pensions and other transfers more than “replace” earnings and other income of bottom quintile …

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Pension Coverage, Retirement Status, and Earnings Replacement Rates Among a Cohort of Canadian Seniors

Ostrovsky, Yuri - 2012

Data from the Longitudinal Administrative Data (LAD) base are used to compare the retirement status and earnings …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104406

Income Replacement Rates Among Canadian Seniors : The Effect of Widowhood and Divorce

LaRochelle-Côté, Sébastien - 2012

widowerhood, and divorce after age 55 on income replacement rates during the retirement years. Among women, separation or divorce …, pensions and retirement and Income and wealth from the Social Analysis Division can be found at Update on Social Analysis …

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Rising Self-employment in the Midst of High Unemployment: An Empirical Analysis of Recent Developments in Canada

Lin, Zhengxi; Picot, Garnett; Yates, Janice - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

This paper highlights recent developments in self-employment in Canada and explores its relationship to unemployment/full-time paid-employment. There are now two and a half million Canadians working at their own businesses, amounting to 16.2% of the total labour force or accounting for 17.8% of...

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Wage Progression of Less Skilled Workers in Canada: Evidence from the SLID (1993-1998)

Zhang, Xuelin - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

are usually locked into dead-end jobs in which wages are stagnant and policies that facilitate job shopping (changing jobs …

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The Evolution of Payroll Taxes in Canada: 1961 - 1993

Lin, Zhengxi; Picot, Garnett; Beach, Charles M. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

This paper outlines the structure of payroll taxes and documents evidence on the level, growth and role of each component over the last three decades for Canada and for each province. Levied by both the federal and provincial governments, payroll taxes in Canada include four major components: i)...

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The Rise in Low-income Rates Among Immigrants in Canada

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income rates increased among successive cohorts of entering immigrants, both in absolute terms and relative to the Canadian born (they have), (2) is this increase due to changes in...

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Who Moves? A Panel Logit Model Analysis of Inter-provincial Migration in Canada

Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

This paper addresses the topic of inter-provincial migration in terms of the basic question: "who moves?" Panel logit models of the probability of moving from one year to the next are estimated using samples derived from the Longitudinal Administrative Database covering the period 1982-95....

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Postsecondary Field of Study and the Canadian Labour Market Outcomes of Immigrants and Non-immigrants

McBride, Stephan; Sweetman, Arthur - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

In Canada's federal system for economic (skilled) class immigrant selection, education is treated as if it is homogeneous and only differs in quantity. Some provinces, however, differentiate based on postsecondary field of study. This study explores the economic implications of field of study...

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Recent Canadian Evidence on Job Quality by Firm Size

Drolet, Marie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

assemble a wide set of facts on wages, fringe benefits and work schedules in small and large firms. We show that the wage gap …

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