has been a long-standing tendency and the participation gap between students from the highest and lowest income families …The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to … which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two …

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 …

background characteristics are controlled for-most notably the income and labour market activity of parents in the years leading …. Parental loss by death is assumed to be exogenous; the experiences of children with a bereaved background offering a benchmark … to assess the endogeneity of parental loss through divorce. Differences between individuals with divorced parents and …

intergenerational income mobility among Canadian men; and (2) estimate the income disadvantage (in adulthood) of being raised in a low … income household. We find that there is considerable intergenerational income mobility in Canada among middle income earners …, but that the inheritance of economic status is significant at both the very top and very bottom of the income distribution …

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 …

suggests that being raised in low-income does not pre-ordain children to low-income in adulthood. Canada compares well in this … quality non-monetary investments in children. However, there is no clear evidence linking the level of family income to the …

. Results differ by province, and for provinces where mean achievement gaps would be lower, not all students would benefit. …