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....

We analyse a large longitudinal data file to determine who has retired and to assess how successful they are in maintaining their incomes after retirement. Our main conclusions are as follows. First, in the two years immediately after retirement the after-tax income replacement ratios average...