Studies of immigrant well-being primarily focus on economic outcomes. However, immigrants often cite a desire to improve their general quality of life as their main motivation for migrating. This study compares life satisfaction among recent immigrants in Canada with life satisfaction in their...

This study documents the prevalence and nature of re-employment among workers who left long-term jobs in paid employment at age 50 or older. The analysis is based on a 28-year administrative panel dataset, the Longitudinal Worker File, capitalizing on its large sample size and detailed...

La presente etude rend compte de la prevalence et de la nature du reemploi chez les travailleurs qui ont quitte un emploi a long terme a titre de salaries a l'age de 50 ans et plus. L'analyse est fondee sur le Fichier de donnees longitudinales sur la main-d'oeuvre, un ensemble de donnees de...

The Canadian Financial Capability Survey (CFCS), released by Statistics Canada in December 2009, was designed to collect information about Canadians' knowledge, abilities, and behaviours concerning financial decision-making. In addition to information on approaches to money management and...

En depit de l'importance des regimes de pension agrees (RPA) dans les discussions sur le systeme canadien de revenu de retraite, tres peu d'etudes au Canada ont porte sur les resultats financiers des cotisants et des non-cotisants a un RPA. Le present document propose une comparaison de la...

In spite of the importance of registered pension plans (RPPs) in discussions of Canada's retirement income system, very few Canadian studies have examined the financial outcomes experienced by RPP members and RPP non-members. Using data from the Longitudinal Administrative Database (LAD), this...

L'Enquete canadienne sur les capacites financieres (ECCF), dont les donnees ont ete diffusees par Statistique Canada en decembre 2009, a ete concue pour recueillir de l'information concernant les connaissances, les capacites et les comportements des Canadiens en ce qui a trait a la prise de...