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Participation in Post-secondary Education in Canada: Has the Role of Parental Income and Education Changed over the 1990s?

Drolet, Marie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

-standing pattern that university participation rates are highest among youths from high-income families and of highly educated parents … parents' level of education than with their income. The paper discusses significant data gaps and concludes that these data … background, namely parental income and parental education changed between 1993 and 2001. The results support a long …

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Family Background and Access to Post-secondary Education: What Happened over the 1990s?

Laporte, Christine; Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2004

This paper presents new evidence on the relationships between access to postsecondary education and family background. It uses the School Leavers Survey (SLS) and the Youth in Transition Survey (YITS) to analyse participation rates in 1991 and 2000.

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Who Goes? The Direct and Indirect Effects of Family Background on Access to Post-secondary Education

Lascelles, Eric; Finnie, Ross; Sweetman, Arthur - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

This research finds that family background (parental education level, family type, ethnicity, location) has important direct and indirect effects on post-secondary participation. The indirect effects of background operate through a set of intermediate variables representing high school outcomes...

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The Evolution of Payroll Taxes in Canada: 1961 - 1993

Lin, Zhengxi; Picot, Garnett; Beach, Charles M. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1996

This paper outlines the structure of payroll taxes and documents evidence on the level, growth and role of each component over the last three decades for Canada and for each province. Levied by both the federal and provincial governments, payroll taxes in Canada include four major components: i)...

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Income Instability of Lone Parents, Singles and Two-Parent Families in Canada, 1984 to 2004

Morissette, Rene; Ostrovsky, Yuri - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2007

This paper examines income instability of lone parents, singles and two-parent families in Canada in the past two … instability among lone parents (especially lone mothers) and unattached individuals over the past 20 years? How do the trends in … earnings instability among lone parents and unattached individuals compare to the trends among the two-parent families? What is …

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Social Transfers, Earnings and Low-income Intensity Among Canadian Children, 1981-96: Highlighting Recent Development in Low-income Measurement

Picot, Garnett; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

In this paper, we revisit trends in low-income among Canadian children by taking advantage of recent developments in … the measurement of low-income intensity. We focus in particular on the Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index and its elaboration … by Osberg and Xu. Low-income intensity declined in the 1980s but rose in the 1990s. Declining earnings put upward …

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Incentive Effects of Social Assistance: A Regression Discontinuity Approach

Milligan, Kevin; Lemieux, Thomas - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

Before 1989, childless social assistance recipients in Quebec under age 30 received much lower benefits than recipients over age 30. We use this sharp discontinuity in policy to estimate the effects of social assistance on various labour market outcomes using a regression discontinuity approach....

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Intergenerational Earnings Mobility Among the Children of Canadian Immigrants

Chen, Wen-Hao; Aydemir, Abdurrahman; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

We analyze the intergenerational income mobility of Canadians born to immigrants using the 2001 Census. A detailed … portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …

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The Maturation of Canada's Retirement Income System: Income Levels, Income Inequality and Low Income Among the Elderly

Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

This paper revisits trends in the level and distribution of income among Canadian seniors in the context of what is … on a detailed decomposition of income by source to show that not only did the maturation of these earnings …-related programs produce a substantial increase in average real incomes but also to a substantial reduction in income inequality among …

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Low-income Intensity During the 1990s: The Role of Economic Growth, Employment Earnings and Social Transfers

Picot, Garnett; Morissette, Rene; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role … played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in … Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income intensity was higher in most provinces during the 1990s than during the 1980 …

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