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associated with better child well-being. Among children in lower income families, incremental increases in household income are …This research paper examines whether various measures of family income are associated with the cognitive, social … between 1994 and 1998. The study finds that regardless of age or how income is measured, higher family income is almost always …
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neighbourhoods rising? Are high and low-income families increasingly clustered in economically homogeneous neighbourhoods? The main … neighbourhood inequality rose primarily as a result of rising family income inequality in the city as a whole or because families …In this paper, we use census tract data to analyse changes in neighbourhood income inequality and residential economic …
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Using hourly wage data from the Labour Force Survey as well as previous household surveys covering the 1981-2004 period, we assess whether the relative importance of low-paid jobs and well-paid jobs has changed over the last two decades. Since it is unclear whether trends in wage levels obtained...
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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...
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Widely used summary measures of inequality or the "disappearing middle class" are potentially misleading. Divergences between evidence cited and conclusions drawn include failing to distinguish the concepts of inequality and polarization, and using scalar oinequalityo measures which are not...
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which we have such information from the census), (2) low-income dynamics among successive cohorts of entering immigrants …, including changes in the entry and exit probabilities, and the extent of "chronic" low income among successive cohorts, and, (3 … outcomes as measured by poverty entry, exit and chronic low income. Based on the Longitudinal Administrative Database (LAD …
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asks to what extent low-paid workers live in low income families, before documenting the deteriorating position in the … Statistics Canada, regarding low-paid work and economically vulnerable families. It begins by focusing on the evolution of wages …
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median- fell over the past decade in both nations. Adding in the role of government income taxes and transfers, families … families had absolutely higher purchasing power than their U. S. counterparts. …
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Remittances "the money immigrants send to family members in their country of origin" are now centre stage in development and immigrant research. Yet, in spite of this interest, research on the characteristics of remittance senders in Canada remains quite limited, in large part because of the...
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This paper provides an overview of income inequality and low-income trends in Canada from an international perspective …. It addresses a series of questions, including:- Is family income inequality rising in Canada after decades of stability …?- Is Canada a low- or high-income inequality country?- Does Canada have a low or high low-income rate as compared to other …
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