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...

Le present document porte sur l'effet de l'attrition selective sur les estimations de l'augmentation des gains des immigrants, a partir de donnees transversales repetees au Canada. On utilise des donnees fiscales longitudinales couplees aux fiches relatives au droit d'etablissement des...

This paper studies the effect of selective attrition on estimates of immigrant earnings growth based on repeated cross-sectional data in Canada. Longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records are used in order to estimate the change in immigrant earnings and the...

De nombreux auteurs ont fait etat de l'inegalite de plus en plus prononcee des gains d'emploi particulierement chez les hommes. Le present article enrichit notre connaissance des tendances de l'inegalite des gains en repondant a trois questions. Premierement, comment l'inegalite des gains des...

Il est question dans ce document de l'accentuation de l'ecart de gains entre les immigrants et les Canadiens de souche depuis deux decennies, et des explications actuelles de cette deterioration du marche du travail parmi les immigrants recents en particulier. Le document fait etat egalement de...