This study explores the labour market performance of low and high educated couples using Census data for the period …

This study assesses the effects of literacy and numeracy skills on the labour market outcomes of Canadian high school … those who do not complete their programs and wind up at the lower end of the labour market. Our findings similarly suggest … that training programs catering to drop-outs could substantially improve these individuals' labour market outcomes by …

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 income during a 4-year interval. Second, 1 in 20 Canadians are exposed …

The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two … separate data sets suggests that individuals from higher income families are much more likely to attend university, but this …

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates …

also find that, during the 1980s, the expected weekly wages associated with all levels of education fell for younger … workers, both for men and women (from 2% to 16%, depending upon education level). Older employees, on the other hand …, experienced mixed results. Expected weekly wages rose for some older workers and fell for some others. …