This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income ….), (3) do low-income rates fall as new immigrants acquire Canadian experience, and are there signs that low-income rates …) in the major Canadian cities, to what extent was the deterioration in the city level low-income rates during the 1990s …

households headed by adults under 35, there has been no corresponding secular rise in the incidence of low income among children … income in young households with children has been offset by rising transfers. Since the 1970s, social transfers have replaced … earnings as the main source of income among low income families with children. Second, changes in the fertility behaviour and …

In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Canadians were exposed to low income during the 1993-1996 period. Our … main findings are the following. First, while 1 in 10 Canadians live in families with low income in a given year, as many … as 1 in 5 are exposed to at least one year of low income during a 4-year interval. Second, 1 in 20 Canadians are exposed …

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use … income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0 ….2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than income mobility, but non-parametric techniques uncover significant non …