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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper provides an overview of income inequality and low-income trends in Canada from an international perspective …. It addresses a series of questions, including:- Is family income inequality rising in Canada after decades of stability …?- Is Canada a low- or high-income inequality country?- Does Canada have a low or high low-income rate as compared to other …

low income among Canadian families, and to explore whether these relationships have changed over time. Similar recent … studies in the US find a weakening in the relationship between economic growth and low income reduction over the past 25 years … negative relationship between economic performance and the incidence of low income among families in Canada for the period from …

Using data from the 1976-to-1997 Survey of Consumer Finances and the 1993-to-2004 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics …, we examine developments in family income inequality, income polarization, relative low income, and income redistribution … through the tax-transfer system. We conclude that family after-tax-income inequality was stable across the 1980s, but rose …