immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

contains six articles. Topics covered are: the puzzling recent behaviour of labour productivity in Canada; an international … perspective on Canada's productivity performance since the 1990s; the role of population growth in shaping productivity growth …

aggregate productivity in Canada; and the role of micro-institutions in fostering productivity growth and reducing poverty in … contains six articles. Topics covered are: the magnitude of the Canada-U.S. productivity gap at the industry level …

Is there a link between sexuality and poverty? If so, has this relationship changed over time? What anti-poverty … policies might be relevant to address issues related to sexuality and poverty? The report synthesises literature and adds top …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

Canada. According to the after-tax LICO, now the most widely reported measure of low income or poverty, the national poverty …/M) of National Child Benefit (NCB) rules, isolating the impact of these rules on low-income or poverty rates and gaps in … 4.6 per cent between 1996 and 1999 because of the introduction of the NCBS. The drop in the poverty gap was even greater …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U … poverty. The paper looks at the policies they have adopted to address the problem. 'Poverty' is interpreted broadly and hence …

Income Supplement in 1968 and the reduction in poverty after 1973 to the maturing of the Canada/Quebec Pension Plan regimes … best job in boosting the income levels of seniors above the poverty line. In his view, Canada has done a remarkable job in … has in fact been the reduction of poverty among senior citizens. According to Osberg, the poverty rate, defined with the …