Employment rates and earnings among Canadian lone mothers have improved significantly since 1980. Using microdata from the Census of Canada, we show that these changes were mainly the result of two major demographic developments: the postwar revolution in women's educational attainment, and the...

Malgre des reformes relativement modestes du regime de bien-etre au Canada par rapport aux Etats Unis, les taux d'emploi et la remuneration des meres seules ont progresse depuis 1980 presque d'un meme ordre de grandeur dans ces deux pays. Nous allons montrer que la plupart des hausses au Canada...

Despite comparatively modest welfare reforms in Canada relative to those of the United States, employment rates and earnings among single mothers have risen by virtually identical magnitudes in the two countries since 1980. We show that most of the gains in Canada and a substantial share of the...

Les taux d'emploi et les gains des meres seules ont augmente sensiblement apres 1980 et, en 2000, les taux de faible revenu etaient descendus a de nouveaux creux record. Contrairement au cas des meres mariees, chez les meres seules la plus grande partie des hausses etait attribuable a la...

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates reached new historic lows. Unlike married mothers, most of the gains among lone mothers were the result of the dynamics of population change and cohort replacement as the large and...

This study examines the relationship between individuals' health status and the socio-economic composition of the neighbourhoods in which they live. It combines individual microdata from Statistics Canada's 1996-97 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) with neighbourhood-level characteristics...

While there is now considerable evidence that the neighbourhood income levels (poverty/affluence) exert an independent effect on health, there is little evidence that neighbourhood income inequality is consequential, net of individual-level socio-economic resources. We show that the usual...

Dans cette etude, on examine le lien entre l'etat de sante des personnes et la composition socioeconomique des quartiers dans lesquels elles vivent. De plus, cette etude permet de coupler les microdonnees des particuliers tirees de l'Enquete nationale sur la sante de la population (ENSP) de...

La question de savoir si les taux relatifs de mariages homogames ou assortatifs augmentent dans les democraties riches fait l'objet d'une importante controverse. Premierement, nous montrons que les resultats empiriques conflictuels qui alimentent le debat sont souvent un artefact d'autres...

Depuis les annees 1960, la nature sociale du paysage urbain de Toronto s'est modifiee de facon irreversible en raison de l'arrivee de nouvelles vagues d'immigrants venus d'Afrique, d'Asie, des Caraibes, ainsi que d'Amerique centrale et d'Amerique du Sud, remplacant ainsi les flux traditionnels...