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Continued improvements in life expectancy and fiscal insolvency of public pensions have led to an increase in pension entitlement ages in several countries, but its consequences for subjective well-being are largely unknown. Financial consequences of retirement complicate the estimation of...
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Prior studies disagree regarding the effectiveness of financial literacy programs, especially those offered in the workplace. To explain such measurement differences in evaluation and outcomes, we employ a stochastic life cycle model with endogenous financial knowledge accumulation to...
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It is now well recognized that all types of regulation are imposing costs on our society. The studies which have tried to evaluate these costs are numerous and their methologies are diversified. This paper is proposing a critical analysis of these methodologies and of the results obtained by...
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Dans cet article, nous démontrons, en utilisant des données de l'Enquête canadienne sur les capacités financières, que le Québec tire de l'arrière par rapport au reste du Canada non seulement en termes de niveau de littératie financière et d'éducation financière, mais aussi en termes...
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The effect of job loss on health may play an important role in the development of the SES-health gradient. In this paper, we estimate the effect of job loss on objective measures of physiological dysregulation using longitudinal data from the Health and Retirement Study and biomarker measures...
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Nous présentons dans ce document la conception et la structure de compas, un modèle de microsimulation dynamique portant sur l’état et l’utilisation de soins de santé des Québécois. Ce modèle comporte deux dimensions importantes : un composante dynamique, qui permet une évolution de...
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Nous nous intéressons au risque futur de longévité étant données l'augmentation de l'espérance de vie due au progrès technologique et la hausse de la prévalence de maladies liées à l'obésité et à la sédentarité. Nous utilisons dans un premier temps des techniques de...
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Les données de l'Institut canadien d'information en santé (ICIS) et le modèle de micro-simulation dynamique de SIMUL permettent à la fois de projeter les dépenses en santé du Québec jusqu'en 2030 et d'en évaluer l'importance par rapport au PIB et aux revenus de l'État. Un scénario...
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Using data from three waves of the General Social Survey on retirement and older workers (1994, 2002 and 2007), we document the evolution of retirement patterns over the last three decades. We combined the analysis of retirement ages of actual retirees with data on expected retirement ages of...
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Financial literacy and Canadians' capacity to plan for retirement is of primary importance for the policy debate over pension system reform in Canada. In this paper, we draw on internationally comparable survey evidence on financial literacy and retirement planning in Canada to investigate how...
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