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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...
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Dans le present document, nous proposons un apercu des tendances de l'inegalite du revenu et du faible revenu au Canada dans une perspective internationale. Nous tentons notamment de repondre aux questions suivantes :- Apres quelques decennies de stabilite, l'inegalite du revenu familial...
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Dans cet article, on utilise la base de donnees fiscales longitudinales canadiennes pour estimer des modeles du recours a l'assistance sociale (ou a l'aide sociale) au cours d'une annee donnee, ainsi que la dynamique sous-jacente : entree dans le regime d'assistance sociale d'une annee a...
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Dans le present document, nous reexaminons les tendances au niveau des faibles revenus dans les familles canadiennes avec des enfants en tirant profit des progres recents au niveau de la mesure de l'intensite des faibles revenus. Nous axons notre attention en particulier sur l'indice de...
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Ce document reexamine les tendances sur le plan du niveau et de la repartition des revenus chez les Canadiens ages dans le contexte de ce qui est sans doute la principale source de changement a l'interieur de ces tendances depuis la fin des annees 70, la maturation des regimes publics et prives...
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L'etude que voici a pour objet d'evaluer l'effet de la performance economique et des paiements de transfert sur les familles a faible revenu au Canada, ainsi que de determiner si cet effet a change ou non avec le temps. Des etudes similaires, realisees recemment aux Etats-Unis, ont revele que la...
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This paper revisits trends in the level and distribution of income among Canadian seniors in the context of what is arguably the major source of change in these trends since the end of the seventies, the maturation of Canada's public and private earnings-related pension systems. The expanded...
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In this paper, Canadian longitudinal tax-based data are used to estimate models of the receipt of social assistance, or welfare, in a given year as well as the underlying dynamics: entry onto social assistance from one year to another, exit from a given spell of social assistance and re-entry...
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This paper provides an overview of income inequality and low-income trends in Canada from an international perspective. It addresses a series of questions, including:- Is family income inequality rising in Canada after decades of stability?- Is Canada a low- or high-income inequality country?-...
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The objectives of this paper are to determine the empirical relationships between economic performance, transfers and low income among Canadian families, and to explore whether these relationships have changed over time. Similar recent studies in the US find a weakening in the relationship...
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