B.C. residents are offered a large, complex web of income and social support programs. Those programs tend to be difficult to access, difficult to understand, and difficult to navigate, and are much more a collection of disparate programs than a cohesive and consistent system targeting an...

We present and assess extensive statistics regarding poverty rates and depths for Vancouver, B.C., and Canada. We show that not only are single adults in B.C. the most likely to experience poverty, but they also experience the deepest level of poverty. Both single adults and single parents who...

There is considerable interest in measuring tax noncompliance using microeconomic data. One such method estimates income under-reporting by self-employed households by assuming a known, parametric form of the Engel curve and making the further parametric assumption that self-employed households...