Le present document porte sur les tendances recentes concernant l'assurance-emploi (auparavant l'assurance-chomage). On y presente egalement l'evolution historique du regime d'assurance-emploi. En voici les principales conclusions. Le regime d'assurance-emploi a connu d'importants deficits...

A l'aide des donnees de l'Enquete sur les finances des consommateurs menee de 1976 a 1997 et de l'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu menee de 1993 a 2004, nous examinons l'evolution de l'inegalite du revenu familial, de la polarisation du revenu, du faible revenu relatif et de la...

La presente etude est consacree a une evaluation de deux problemes que peut poser la declaration des prestations d'assurance-emploi (a.-e.) et d'aide sociale (a.s.) dans le cadre de l'Enquete sur la dynamique du travail et du revenu (EDTR) : a) la sous-declaration du nombre mensuel de...

De 1993/1994 a la fin des annees 90, on a assiste au Canada a une baisse spectaculaire du recours a l'aide sociale, presque equivalente a celle enregistree aux Etats Unis mais sans que des lois historiques aient ete adoptees comme dans ce pays. Nous examinons la dynamique du recours a...

Tous les pays se tournent vers la croissance economique pour reduire les faibles revenus. Dans le present document, qui est axe sur les annees 90, nous evaluons l'influence qu'ont eu les variations dans la croissance economique, les revenus d'emploi et les transferts gouvernementaux sur les...

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the...

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 families with no...

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had a parent who also collected UI. A major methodological challenge is to determine the extent to...

Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach....

In recent years, differences in working hours between Canada and other countries have been the focus of a substantial body of research. Much less attention has been paid to regional differences in work hours, although differences in average annual work hours between some regions are of an order...