La presente communication vise a expliquer un paradoxe. En effet, depuis les annees 70, on a enregistre une tendance generale a la baisse dans les gains reels et relatifs des jeunes adultes ages de moins de 35 ans. En depit du fait que la plupart des jeunes enfants vivent au sein de menages...

Le present article resume les conclusions de documents de recherche recents de la Division de l'analyse des entreprises et du marche du travail de Statistique Canada portant sur le travail peu remunere et les familles economiquement vulnerables. Nous aborderons tout d'abord l'evolution des...

Nous examinons l'evolution du travail faiblement remunere et la situation des familles economiquement vulnerables au cours des deux dernieres decennies. Malgre la croissance importante du niveau de scolarite des travailleurs et de leur niveau d'experience, la proportion d'emplois payant moins de...

Pour notre propos, nous nous reportons a des donnees sur les secteurs de recensement (SR) pour analyser l'evolution des inegalites de revenu entre quartiers et la segregation residentielle d'origine economique dans les huit premieres villes canadiennes de 1980 a 1995. Le clivage des revenus...

Les taux d'emploi et les gains des meres seules ont augmente sensiblement apres 1980 et, en 2000, les taux de faible revenu etaient descendus a de nouveaux creux record. Contrairement au cas des meres mariees, chez les meres seules la plus grande partie des hausses etait attribuable a la...

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates reached new historic lows. Unlike married mothers, most of the gains among lone mothers were the result of the dynamics of population change and cohort replacement as the large and...

Past research has shown that the Canadian pension system is relatively effective in helping seniors to stay out of poverty. However, the extent to which the pension system enables individuals and families to maintain living standards achieved during their working years after retirement (income...

We examine the evolution of low-paid work and the position of economically vulnerable families in Canada over the last two decades. Despite substantial growth in workers' educational attainment and experience, the proportion of jobs paying less than $10.00 per hour has remained fairly stable...

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the...

This study uses longitudinal tax data to explore several undocumented aspects regarding the duration of time spent residing in low-income neighbourhoods (residential 'spells'). Although the length of new spells is generally substantial (at least compared with low-income spells), there is quite a...