A partir des donnees de l'Enquete de 1984 sur les avoirs et les dettes et de l'Enquete de 1999 sur la securite financiere, nous documentons l'evolution de l'inegalite de la richesse au Canada durant la periode de 1984 a 1999. Voici nos principales constatations: 1) l'inegalite de la richesse a...

Using data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, we document the evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) wealth inequality has increased between 1984 and 1999, 2) the growth in wealth...

We provide recent evidence on job characteristics by firm size in Canada. Using a variety of household surveys, we assemble a wide set of facts on wages, fringe benefits and work schedules in small and large firms. We show that the wage gap between small and large firms has reamined fairly...

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Canadians were exposed to low income during the 1993-1996 period. Our main findings are the following. First, while 1 in 10 Canadians live in families with low income in a given year, as many as 1 in 5 are exposed to at least one year of low...

Current trends in marriage and fertility patterns suggest that young Canadian women are delaying family formation and concentrating on developing their careers. Using data from the 1998 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, this study provides Canadian evidence on the effect of marital status...

Faced with high unemployment rates, an unequal distribution of worktime, and shifts to temporary, part-time and contract employment, Canadian workers may prefer to change their work hours. Using data from the Survey of Work Arrangements of 1995, we find that two thirds of Canadian workers are...

Controlling for observable worker attributes, we find that computer use is associated with a wage premium of at most 14%. Following Dinardo and Pischke (1997), we examine the wage premium associated with other tools used on the job. While these authors find a significant wage premium for the use...

Dans le present document, nous examinons dans quelle mesure les Canadiens ont ete exposes au faible revenu au cours de la periode de 1993 a 1996. Nos principales conclusions sont les suivantes. Tout d'abord, meme si seulement un Canadien sur 10 vit dans une famille a faible revenu pendant une...

Le present document reunit des donnees de plusieurs enquetes-menages pour documenter l'evolution de la protection offerte par les pensions aux travailleurs jeunes et plus ages au Canada entre le milieu des annees 1980 et le milieu des annees 1990. Nos principales observations sont les suivantes....

A partir des donnees de l'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu (EDTR), nous avons tente de determiner dans quelle mesure des facteurs qui n'avaient pas encore ete etudies dans le contexte canadien contribuent aux differences salariales entre les hommes et les femmes. Comme d'autres...