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...

We investigate how family earnings instability 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...

The objective of this paper is to present the role and importance of internal control systems in good risk management practice, with a particular emphasis on the internal audit and compliance functions within such a framwork. Our focus is on the Life and Health Insurance industry in Canada.

More knowledge on combustion of agricultural crops is needed because of increased interest in using farm-grown biomass for energy production purposes. Presently, uncertainty regarding fuel quality and combustion-related emissions hinders the sustainable development of the agricultural biomass...

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...