A l'aide des donnees de recensement de 1980 a 2000, on examine quelles seraient les conditions necessaires pour que les cohortes de nouveaux immigrants parviennent a la parite de gains avec les travailleurs nes au Canada. Selon les resultats, il faudrait que les gains des nouveaux immigrants...

Le but de la presente analyse est d'etablir une estimation exacte du degre de mobilite intergenerationnelle du revenu au Canada. A partir des donnees sur l'impot sur le revenu pour quelque 400 000 paires pere-fils, nous en sommes arrives a une elasticite intergenerationnelle des gains dont la...

Il est generalement admis que la societe americaine est a la fois plus riche et plus inegale que la societe canadienne, et que l'inegalite entre l'une et l'autre s'est accentuee ces dernieres decennies. Il est vrai que l'inegalite des gains a augmente dans les deux pays de 1974 a 1985....

Tous les pays se tournent vers la croissance economique pour reduire les faibles revenus. Dans le present document, qui est axe sur les annees 90, nous evaluons l'influence qu'ont eu les variations dans la croissance economique, les revenus d'emploi et les transferts gouvernementaux sur les...

The deterioration of immigrants' entry earnings in Canada in the past three decades has been well documented. This study provides further insights into the changing fortunes of immigrants by focusing on their earnings inequality and earnings instability. The analysis is based on a flexible...

Using census data covering the 1980 to 2000 period, we examine what outcomes would be necessary for cohorts of recent immigrants to achieve earnings parity with Canadian-born workers. Our results show that today's recent immigrants would have to experience a drastic rise of their relative...

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings variability has varied in terms of the unemployment rate and real gross domestic product (GDP) growth over this period. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation...

We examine the evolution of low-paid work and the position of economically vulnerable families in Canada over the last two decades. Despite substantial growth in workers' educational attainment and experience, the proportion of jobs paying less than $10.00 per hour has remained fairly stable...

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the...

Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach....