pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

.S., Canada, the U.K., and Germany, we construct beauty measures in different ways that allow putting a lower bound on the true …

This paper analyzes transitions into and out-of Social Assistance in Canada. We estimate a dynamic Probit model … differences in social assistance participation. The empirical results indicate that a "welfare trap" does exist in Canada, but the …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. We offer a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics for Russia, using the … composition.The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. We decompose poverty into …

commercialization and transfer of technologies, and increased income inequality and concentration of severe poverty in certain regions …