Ce document examine le marche du travail canadien des annees 90 et le compare a celui des decennies precedentes, en s'interessant particulierement aux resultats sur le plan de la repartition. Il aborde les changements qui se sont manifestes dans les gains relatifs de divers groupes, dans les...

Nous presentons un cadre d'analyse dynamique du chomage et l'appliquons a des donnees canadiennes et americaines. L'analyse est axee sur la distinction entre lefait d'etre au chomage et le fait de commencer une periode de chomage, c'est-a-dire entre l'effectif des chomeurs et l'afflux de...

Dans cette etude, on utilise les donnees longitudinales extraites des dossiers fiscaux des deux dernieres decennies et l'analyse par cohortes synthetiques pour examiner les tendances des revenus.

Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's. Using an extraordinary data base drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose this growth in earnings inequality into its persistent and transitory components. We find...

This paper summarizes findings from the research paper entitled Social Assistance Use in Canada: National and Provincial Trends in Incidence, Entry and Exit. For many Canadian families, Social Assistance (SA) usage reflects near-destitution and an exclusion from the social and economic...

In this paper we ask the three following questions : 1) even after controlling for cyclical effects, do new spells of low earnings now last longer than they used to? 2) once a male worker starts a new spell of low earnings, does he receive lower real annual wages now than his counterparts did in...

This paper examines the robustness of a measure of the average complete duration of unemployment in Canada to a host of assumptions used in its derivation. In contrast to the average incomplete duration of unemployment, which is a lagging cyclical indicator, this statistic is a coincident...