Dooley, Martin; Gascon, Stéphane; Lefebvre, Pierre; … - Centre de Recherche sur l'Emploi et les Fluctuations … - 1999
The principal qualifying condition for welfare in Canada, unlike the US, is financial need - there are no demographic criteria. We use a time-series of annual, national cross-sections for the period 1981 through 1993 to estimate a model of lone-female headship. Our findings do not support the...