On a bien decrit la degradation des gains des immigrants au Canada en debut d'emploi au cours des trois dernieres decennies. La presente etude nous renseigne en outre sur les changements de situation des immigrants en portant sur l'inegalite et l'instabilite de leurs gains. L'analyse s'appuie...

Nous etudions l'evolution de l'instabilite des gains familiaux de la fin des annees 1980 a la fin des annees 1990 et du revenu familial d'un segment a l'autre de la courbe de distribution des gains familiaux. Nous degageons quatre grands profils. Premierement, dans le sous ensemble de familles...

Le present article resume les conclusions du document de recherche intitulee: L'instabilite des gains familiaux et du revenu familial au Canada, 1986 a 1991 et 1996 a 2001. En depit de ses repercussions sur le bien etre des familles, on a peu analyse l'instabilite des gains dans le contexte des...

Nous analysons la mesure dans laquelle les familles canadiennes sont protegees par des regimes de pension prives et nous documentons la facon dont leur epargne retraite (par la voie de cotisations a des regimes d'epargne retraire donnant droit a une aide fiscale) a evolue au cours des deux...

The deterioration of immigrants' entry earnings in Canada in the past three decades has been well documented. This study provides further insights into the changing fortunes of immigrants by focusing on their earnings inequality and earnings instability. The analysis is based on a flexible...

We investigate how family earnings instability has evolved between the late 1980s and the late 1990s and how family income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First, among the subset of families who were intact over the...

Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an "added worker effect" for the earnings of teenagers. However, we find that among families with no...

The recent economic boom in the Canadian province of Alberta provides an ideal "natural experiment" to examine immigrants' responses to a strong labour demand outside major metropolitan centres. The key finding of our study, which is based on a unique dataset that combines administrative and...

We analyze the degree to which Canadian families are covered by private pension plans and document how their savings for retirement (made through contributions to tax-assisted retirement savings programs) have evolved over the last two decades. We find that two-parent families, lone-parent...

This study extends previous work on the evolution of the education premium, and investigates the existence of diverging university/high school earnings ratio trends across industries in the knowledge-based economy. The study also discusses the changing demand for high-skilled workers by...