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Life Cycle Bias in the Estimation of Intergenerational Earnings Persistence
Grawe, Nathan D. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003
The estimation of intergenerational earnings mobility is rife with measurement problems since the research does not observe permanent, lifetime earnings. Nearly all studies make corrections for mean variation in earnings because of the age differences among respondents. Recent works employ...
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Death and Divorce: The Long-term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents
Heisz, Andrew; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult incomes and labour market … those from intact and bereaved families significantly overstate the impact of divorce across a broad range of outcomes. When … background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading …
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Deces et divorce : les consequences a long terme de la perte parentale chez les adolescents
Heisz, Andrew; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
Deux quasi-experiences sont menees pour evaluer l'effet du divorce des parents sur les revenus et le comportement sur le marche du travail des adolescents devenus adultes, ainsi que sur leur recours aux programmes sociaux et leur comportement en matiere de mariage et de fecondite. Elles mettent...
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Qu'est-ce qui explique les mouvements des enfants vers la situation de faible revenu et hors de celle-ci? les changements de situation sur le marche du travail ou le mariage et le...
Zyblock, Miles; Picot, Garnett; Pyper, Wendy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
La pauvrete chez les enfants est un probleme auquel le gouvernement accorde la priorite. Pour reduire le taux de faible revenu chez les enfants, il faut soit diminuer le nombre d'enfants qui entrent dans la situation de faible revenu, soit accroitre le nombre de ceux qui en sortent. Mais quels...
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Pourquoi l'emploi et les gains ont-ils augmente chez les meres seules durant les annees 1980 et 1990?
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Myers, Karen; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Les taux d'emploi et les gains des meres seules ont augmente sensiblement apres 1980 et, en 2000, les taux de faible revenu etaient descendus a de nouveaux creux record. Contrairement au cas des meres mariees, chez les meres seules la plus grande partie des hausses etait attribuable a la...
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Why Did Employment and Earnings Rise Among Lone Mothers During the 1980s and 1990s?
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Myers, Karen; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006
Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates reached new historic lows. Unlike married mothers, most of the gains among lone mothers were the result of the dynamics of population change and cohort replacement as the large and...
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Les quartiers influencent-ils la reussite a long terme sur le marche du travail? : comparaison des adultes qui ont grandi dans des ensembles de logements publics differents
Oreopoulos, Philip - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002
Mon propos sera d'examiner si les resultats obtenus a long terme sur le marche du travail dependent du milieu d'habitation des adultes qui ont grandi dans des logements subventionnes a Toronto. Le programme torontois de logement offre tout l'eventail de qualite des quartiers pour une mesure des...
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Why Do Children Move into and out of Low Income: Changing Labour Market Conditions or Marriage and Divorce
Zyblock, Miles; Picot, Garnett; Pyper, Wendy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999
(2) changes in the parent's labour market conditions (i.e. job loss and gain, changes in hours of work or wages). We find … changes in jobs held by parents. However, changes in family status are relatively infrequent compared to labour market changes …. Parents are much more likely to lose or find jobs, and experience changes in hours worked or wages, than they are to marry or …
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Do Neighbourhoods Influence Long-term Labour Market Success? A Comparison of Adults Who Grew up in Different Public Housing Projects
Oreopoulos, Philip - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002
This paper examines whether long-run labour market outcomes depend on residential environment among adults who grew up … limited. Families that applied for public housing could not specify which project they wished to be housed in and were …
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Bases demographiques de la montee de l'emploi et des gains chez les meres seules au Canada et aux Etats-Unis, 1980 a 2000
Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Myers, Karen; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008
Malgre des reformes relativement modestes du regime de bien-etre au Canada par rapport aux Etats Unis, les taux d'emploi et la remuneration des meres seules ont progresse depuis 1980 presque d'un meme ordre de grandeur dans ces deux pays. Nous allons montrer que la plupart des hausses au Canada...
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