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...

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...

Malgre des reformes relativement modestes du regime de bien-etre au Canada par rapport aux Etats Unis, les taux d'emploi et la remuneration des meres seules ont progresse depuis 1980 presque d'un meme ordre de grandeur dans ces deux pays. Nous allons montrer que la plupart des hausses au Canada...

Dans le present document, nous reexaminons les tendances au niveau des faibles revenus dans les familles canadiennes avec des enfants en tirant profit des progres recents au niveau de la mesure de l'intensite des faibles revenus. Nous axons notre attention en particulier sur l'indice de...

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...

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income...

In this paper, we use census tract data to analyse changes in neighbourhood income inequality and residential economic segregation in the eight largest Canadian cities during the 1980-95 period. Is the income gap between richer and poorer neighbourhoods rising? Are high and low-income families...

Despite comparatively modest welfare reforms in Canada relative to those of the United States, employment rates and earnings among single mothers have risen by virtually identical magnitudes in the two countries since 1980. We show that most of the gains in Canada and a substantial share of the...

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...