Dans le present document, nous examinons dans quelle mesure les Canadiens ont ete exposes au faible revenu au cours de la periode de 1993 a 1996. Nos principales conclusions sont les suivantes. Tout d'abord, meme si seulement un Canadien sur 10 vit dans une famille a faible revenu pendant une...

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Canadians were exposed to low income during the 1993-1996 period. Our main findings are the following. First, while 1 in 10 Canadians live in families with low income in a given year, as many as 1 in 5 are exposed to at least one year of low...

This paper examines the extent to which the relationship between participation in post-secondary education and family background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long-standing pattern that university participation rates are...

Le present document porte sur la mesure dans laquelle le lien entre la participation aux etudes postsecondaires et la situation familiale, soit le revenu des parents et le niveau de scolarite des parents, a evolue entre 1993 et 2001. Les resultats confirment une tendance de longue date selon...

This study examines which factors underlie the narrowing of wage differences seen between young bachelor?s degree holders and high school graduates from the 2000-to-2002 period to the 2010-to-2012 period and the widening of differences in full-time paid employment rates between these two...

La presente etude porte sur les facteurs qui ont sous-tendu la diminution des ecarts salariaux entre les jeunes titulaires d?un baccalaureat et ceux titulaires d?un diplome d?etudes secondaires de la periode de 2000 a 2002 a celle de 2010 a 2012, ainsi que l?accroissement des differences de taux...

Using a regression decomposition approach, we find that, during the 1980s, the growth in the relative educational attainment of older workers has contributed to about one-quarter of the increase in the age-wage gap of men and women. During the 1990s, the age-wage gap increased to a much lesser...

This study extends previous work on the evolution of the education premium, and investigates the existence of diverging university/high school earnings ratio trends across industries in the knowledge-based economy. The study also discusses the changing demand for high-skilled workers by...

Dans cette etude, on examine la performance des couples peu scolarises ou tres scolarises sur le marche du travail a l'aide des donnees du recensement pour la periode de 1980 a 2000.

This study explores the labour market performance of low and high educated couples using Census data for the period 1980 to 2000.