This paper uses LAD panel data to investigate how variability of workers' earnings and earnings instability for Canada changed between 1982­89 and 1990­97. Following the methodology of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994), we decompose the total variation of workers' earnings into permanent variation...

Our focus is on the event of receipt of low-income support benefits amongst Canadians who are 65 or older. The outcome that we model empirically is the incidence rate for Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits. We estimate multivariate models to investigate the effects of age, cohort,...

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-2006. We decompose the total variance of workers' earnings into a 'permanent' component between workers and a 'transitory' earnings instability component over time for given workers. We then investigate the...