Dans cet article, on utilise la base de donnees fiscales longitudinales canadiennes pour estimer des modeles du recours a l'assistance sociale (ou a l'aide sociale) au cours d'une annee donnee, ainsi que la dynamique sous-jacente : entree dans le regime d'assistance sociale d'une annee a...

In this paper, Canadian longitudinal tax-based data are used to estimate models of the receipt of social assistance, or welfare, in a given year as well as the underlying dynamics: entry onto social assistance from one year to another, exit from a given spell of social assistance and re-entry...

This paper reexamines a recent contribution to the theory of wealth accumulation under income uncertainty by Ricardo Caballero in this Review. First we develop a more general model which generates a richer variety of results and this enables us to place the role of income uncertainty into a more...

It is well known that an uncertain income stream will induce individuals to save if they are forward looking. In this paper we investigate the consequences of such saving upon the distribution of wealth among households. The inquiry is motivated by the fact that both the dispersion of the U.S....

The paper by Charles M. Beach and Ross Finnie represents the first attempt to quantify short-term or cyclical changes in earnings mobility in Canada. Mobility analysis can be seen as a complement to the analysis of income distribution. For a given degree of earnings inequality, more earnings...

This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers' Earnings in Canada. This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings...

Dans cette etude, on utilise les donnees longitudinales extraites des dossiers fiscaux des deux dernieres decennies et l'analyse par cohortes synthetiques pour examiner les tendances des revenus.

Le present document porte sur la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de 1982 a 1997 et sur l'evolution de cette variabilite en fonction du taux de chomage et de la croissance du produit interieur brut (PIB) reel durant cette periode. En utilisant un grand panel de donnees fiscales,...

A partir des donnees de l'Enquete sur les capacites de lecture et d'ecriture utilisees quotidiennement (ECLEUQ) de Statistique Canada, nous avons etudie les differences de revenus entre les minorites et les Blancs et l'importance des capacites cognitives dans les modeles de revenus observes....