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

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 …

of poverty in Quebec and in Canada. This contribution is decomposed into a product of the effects of total size and … that regard. Relatively to the rest of Canada, Quebec's social programs are both more generous and more poverty … the components of income are ranked can influence considerably the share of total poverty alleviation allocated to each …

Deprivation dominance is a useful concept for evaluating poverty profiles (poverty rate, gap, and inequality among the …---an one-sided joint test for the differences between two poverty profiles. This test operationalizes the concept proposed by … and provide the statistical evidence about the differences in poverty intensity across four Canadian regions …

This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United … States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household …/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear to be most closely associated with transitions into and out of poverty and the …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …

avoids these problems by using a stochastic dominance approach to compare regional low income profiles in Canada without …