Nous presentons ici des donnees recentes sur les caracteristiques des emplois selon la taille des entreprises au Canada. Puisant a meme diverses enquetes-menages, nous reunissons de nombreuses donnees sur les salaires, les avantages sociaux et les horaires de travail dans les petites et les...

Nous analysons la mesure dans laquelle les familles canadiennes sont protegees par des regimes de pension prives et nous documentons la facon dont leur epargne retraite (par la voie de cotisations a des regimes d'epargne retraire donnant droit a une aide fiscale) a evolue au cours des deux...

Tous les pays se tournent vers la croissance economique pour reduire les faibles revenus. Dans le present document, qui est axe sur les annees 90, nous evaluons l'influence qu'ont eu les variations dans la croissance economique, les revenus d'emploi et les transferts gouvernementaux sur les...

Aux prises avec des taux de chomage eleves, une repartition inegale des heures de travail et un virage vers des emplois temporaires, a temps partiel et contractuels, les travailleurs canadiens prefereraient peut-etre modifier leur horaire de travail. A partir des donnees de l'Enquete sur les...

Using Statistics Canada's Longitudinal Worker File, we document short-term and long-term earnings losses for a large (10%) sample of Canadian workers who lost their job through firm closures or mass layoffs during the late 1980s and the 1990s. Our use of a nationally representative sample allows...

In this paper, we assemble data from several household surveys to document how pension coverage of young and older workers has evolved in Canada between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. Our main findings are the following. First, both administrative data from the Pension Plans in Canada (PPIC)...

Using census data covering the 1980 to 2000 period, we examine what outcomes would be necessary for cohorts of recent immigrants to achieve earnings parity with Canadian-born workers. Our results show that today's recent immigrants would have to experience a drastic rise of their relative...

We investigate how family earnings instability has evolved between the late 1980s and the late 1990s and how family income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First, among the subset of families who were intact over the...

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...

Using data from a large Canadian longitudinal dataset, we examine whether earnings of wives and teenagers increase in response to layoffs experienced by husbands. We find virtually no evidence of an "added worker effect" for the earnings of teenagers. However, we find that among families with no...