As labour markets change, the question arises whether Canada’s immigration policy – and our “point system” in particular – is doing a good job of identifying potential immigrants who will fare well on arrival in Canada.

We use tax-based longitudinal microdata for 1982-99 to (i) examine how earnings distributions have shifted, (ii) identify changes in earnings mobility patterns, and (iii) replicate and update Beaudry and Green's cohort analysis of age-earnings profiles. We find: (i) increased polarization of...

This paper addresses the sampling distribution of two general classes of normative income inequality indices. For approximations to the Atkinson-Kolm-Sen index of relative inequality and the Kolm-Blackorby-Donaldson index of absolute inequality, the paper provides consistent estimators and...

The paper estimates a life-cycle model of consumption, saving, and wealth accumulation from disaggregated time series data containing an explicit age dimension. Highly significant age effects indicate the importance of age disaggregated analysis. Interest elasticities of saving are considerably...