income and life satisfaction is strongly shaped by the aspiration level serving to evaluate life conditions. The aspiration …

authors focus on four aspects of distribution outcomes: (1) earnings and income inequality; (2) the relative earnings of the … income in Canada during the 1990s. …

, labour income and living standards in Canada. They find that, once the appropriate adjustments are made, the labour share and … the non-labour share (composed of profits, interest and investment income, and incorporated business income) in national … income tend to revert to their historical means over the 1926-2001 historical period, although divergences may last for …

poverty line measured as one-half median equivalent income after taxes and transfers, for households headed by a person 65 or … over fell from 28.4 per cent in 1973 to 5.4 per cent in 1997, while the poverty gap or income shortfall below the poverty … tax and transfer income are much higher and show no downward trend. Osberg attributes the difference between the before …

paper Pierre Fortin discusses trends in Quebec’s real domestic income relative to that in Ontario over the last half …-century. He finds that per capita real domestic income in Quebec, as a percentage of that in Ontario, fell from 78 per cent in … development Fortin seeks to explain is the 12 percentage point increase in Quebec’s per capita real domestic income from 74 per …

of poverty and income distribution and for question of autonomy. …