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...

This paper investigates annual working hours in the United States and Canada over the period 1979 to 2000. The study finds that a working hours gap opened in the 1980s and expanded substantially in the 1990s. It investigates the possibility that labour supply differences, specifically (1)...

Le present document porte sur le nombre d'heures de travail aux Etats'Unis et au Canada au cours de la periode allant de 1979 a 2000. Nous constatons qu'un ecart s'est creuse durant les annees 80 et s'est accentue considerablement dans les annees 90. Nous examinons la possibilite que cet ecart...

Des recherches anterieures ont montre que le systeme de pension du Canada est relativement efficace pour ce qui est d'aider les personnes agees a echapper a la pauvrete. Toutefois, la mesure dans laquelle le systeme de pension permet aux particuliers et aux familles de maintenir a la retraite...

La securite financiere des veuves et des femmes divorcees durant la retraite est depuis longtemps un sujet de preoccupation. Dans le present article, la question est examinee dans le contexte de travaux de recherche sur les < taux de remplacement du revenu >, c'est-a-dire la mesure dans laquelle le revenu familial durant les...</taux>

The financial security of widowed and divorced women during their retirement years has long been a concern. This paper places this issue within the context of research on replacement rates, the extent to which family income during the working years (here, the mid-50s) is "replaced" as...