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...

La deperdition des jeunes des collectivites rurales cause depuis un bon moment deja bien des inquietudes. On pense generalement que la plupart des collectivites rurales offrent peu de possibilites a leurs jeunes, ce qui les oblige a partir vers les villes, vraisemblablement pour toujours. Meme...

Dans cette etude, et dans le prolongement de travaux anterieurs sur l'evolution de l'avantage associe aux etudes, on examine les tendances divergentes du ratio des gains des diplomes universitaires a ceux des diplomes du secondaire dans divers secteurs de l'economie du savoir. On discute...

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...

This study documents how hiring rates, separation rates, and worker reallocation rates evolved from the late 1970s to the late 2000s. It also examines how the pace of labour reallocation varied across industries, firm sizes, provinces, age groups, and education levels during the 2000s.

This study examines long-term earnings losses of workers laid off during the early 1990s and the early 2000s using data from Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Worker File (LWF). In contrast to earlier studies, many of which focused on narrowly defined samples, this study compares earnings losses...

Canada's oil reserves are concentrated in three Canadian provinces: Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Newfoundland and Labrador. Oil prices received by Canadian oil producers more than doubled between 2001 and 2008. The proportion of young men employed in the oil industry differs markedly across...

La presente etude examine comment les salaires des travailleurs canadiens ont evolue de 1981 a 2011, selon cinq dimensions : sexe, age, niveau de scolarite, industrie et profession.