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...

The economic assimilation of immigrants is a key concern for economists and policy makers. The topic has been widely explored in terms of earnings assimilation of immigrants. Using the 1999 Survey of Financial Security, this study attempts to look at the issue from the wealth perspective....

The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from...

This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background. It uses the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.

This study uses longitudinal tax data to explore several undocumented aspects regarding the duration of time spent residing in low-income neighbourhoods (residential 'spells'). Although the length of new spells is generally substantial (at least compared with low-income spells), there is quite a...

This paper examines trends in earnings, using tax-based longitudinal data from the last two decades and synthetic cohort analysis.

Ce rapport examine le revenu et le faible revenu dans les regions metropolitaines de recensement entre 1980 et 2000. On y evalue la situation des familles ainsi que celle des quartiers dans lesquels celles-ci vivent. La situation des nouveaux immigrants, de meme que celles des Autochtones et des...

Ce rapport a pour but d'effectuer un tableau statistique des conditions socio-economiques dans les regions metropolitaines de recensement (RMR) de Toronto, Montreal et Vancouver. L'etude met en lumiere les tendances liees a la croissance de la population, la croissance de la banlieue, le...

This report paints a statistical portrait of socio-economic conditions in the Census Metropolitan Areas (CMAs) of Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. It highlights trends in population growth, suburban growth, commuting, employment, unemployment, immigration, income and low-income and...