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makes to the reduction of child poverty. The countries compared are Canada, UK, USA, Germany, Norway, Denmark, Sweden and … child maintenance makes to the reduction of child poverty. The countries compared are Canada, UK, USA, Germany, Norway …
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- and ever-married single mother families in the United States, Australia, Canada, and France. The paper presents cross …
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In this paper I assess the extent to which welfare states reduce poverty among single mothers and all mothers. I focus on two different typologies of welfare states. One identifies the gendered assumptions underlying social policies, while the other focuses on how welfare states and labor...
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for the health of mothers, in particular lone mothers, in Canada and Norway. Studies from Europe and the US and a recent … the 1994 National Population Health Survey, in Canada the unconditional health status of lone mothers is significantly … between married and lone mothers is not apparent. It is also true that in Canada, lone mothers are dramatically more likely to …
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In Canada, a policy aiming at helping single parents on social assistance become self-reliant was implemented on an …
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In 2002 the Quebec government implemented the Action Emploi (AE) program aimed at making work pay for long-term social assistance recipients (SA). AE offered a generous wage subsidy that could last up to three years to recipients who found a full-time job within twelve months. The program was...
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This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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current estimates of the output gap in Canada. We begin by assembling a new data base of quarterly realtime output estimates …
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Immigrants to Canada enjoy labour market outcomes that are more favourable than those for their counterparts in Sweden …. In an effort to understand these gaps, Canada's immigration policy and outcomes are contrasted to the Swedish immigration … deteriorated significantly in Canada since the 1980s, as they have in many western countries including Sweden. …
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universities over the period 1970 through 2001. The individual level data are collected by Statistics Canada from all universities … in Canada and are used to analyze the evolution of male-female wage differentials of professors in Canadian universities …
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