background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long … account of both parental education and parental income, university participation rates are more strongly associated with … parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data …

minority-white income differences and the role cognitive skills play in those patterns. Some minority groups have substantially … the case of certain male groups, these differences play a significant role in explaining the observed income patterns. The … ethnic-white income gaps are, however, much smaller for women, and the literacy and numeracy variables do not have much of a …

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 higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this …

This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background …

This research finds that family background (parental education level, family type, ethnicity, location) has important …

which we have such information from the census), (2) low-income dynamics among successive cohorts of entering immigrants …, including changes in the entry and exit probabilities, and the extent of "chronic" low income among successive cohorts, and, (3 … outcomes as measured by poverty entry, exit and chronic low income. Based on the Longitudinal Administrative Database (LAD …

may play substantively different roles. The findings suggest that university-going is less common among lower-income …

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Canadians were exposed to low income during the 1993-1996 period. Our … main findings are the following. First, while 1 in 10 Canadians live in families with low income in a given year, as many … as 1 in 5 are exposed to at least one year of low income during a 4-year interval. Second, 1 in 20 Canadians are exposed …