For a decade or so starting in the early 1990s, Canada's major income support programs underwent substantial reform. Meanwhile, the economy first lingered in a deep recession and then recovered with a period of strong growth. This paper focuses on how the distributional impact of Employment...

What accounts for the truly remarkable drop in welfare dependency in Canada since the early 1990s? The authors provide a nationwide empirical analysis of the underlying factors, and draw implications for policymakers.

Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee Recours a l'assistance sociale au Canada: Tendances nationales et provinciales en matiere d'incidence, d'entree et de sortie. Dans le cas de nombreuses familles canadiennes, le recours a l'assistance sociale (AS)...

De 1993/1994 a la fin des annees 90, on a assiste au Canada a une baisse spectaculaire du recours a l'aide sociale, presque equivalente a celle enregistree aux Etats Unis mais sans que des lois historiques aient ete adoptees comme dans ce pays. Nous examinons la dynamique du recours a...

Canada witnessed a dramatic decline in welfare participation from 1993/94 to the end of the nineties - one almost on a par with the U.S., but without the sort of landmark legislation adopted there. We explore the dynamics of Social Assistance usage in Canada over this period using data based on...

Dans cet article, on utilise la base de donnees fiscales longitudinales canadiennes pour estimer des modeles du recours a l'assistance sociale (ou a l'aide sociale) au cours d'une annee donnee, ainsi que la dynamique sous-jacente : entree dans le regime d'assistance sociale d'une annee a...

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, Canadian longitudinal tax-based data are used to estimate models of the receipt of social assistance, or welfare, in a given year as well as the underlying dynamics: entry onto social assistance from one year to another, exit from a given spell of social assistance and re-entry...

The increasing share of the top fractile in the earnings distributions of several Anglo- Saxon heritage economies since the 1970s has been dramatic, and well documented. To date, however, little is known about the socio-economic origins and gender composition of the very top tail in the modern...