Cette etude applique la methodologie developpee par O.J. Blanchard et P. Diamond (1989) pour decomposer les fluctuations du chomage provenant de chocs d'activite economique agregee, de chocs de redistribution et de chocs sur le taux d'activite. On estime un modele vectoriel autoregressif...

This paper examines two related but distinct phenomena in Canada: 1) The tendency for certain neighbourhoods to be disproportionately income poor and to account for a substantial share of total poverty within the urban areas containing them. 2) The extent to which certain neighbourhoods, whether...

While we already know a good deal about the distribution of earnings of Canadians in any given year and how the situation has changed over the last couple of decades, our understanding of earnings dynamics - how individuals' earnings vary from one year to the next or oevr longer periods of time...

While we already know a good deal about the distribution of earnings of Canadians in any given year and how the situation has changed over the last couple of decades, our understanding of earnings dynamics - how individuals' earnings vary from one year to the next or oevr longer periods of time...