Welfare Dynamics in Canada: The Role of Individual Attributes and Economic-policy Variables

In this paper, Canadian longitudinal tax-based data are used to estimate models of the receipt of social assistance, or welfare, in a given year as well as the underlying dynamics: entry onto social assistance from one year to another, exit from a given spell of social assistance and re-entry onto social assistance after the end of a previous spell.

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Year of publication:	2004-10-25
Authors:	Irvine, Ian ; Finnie, Ross ; Sceviour, Roger
Institutions:	Statistics Canada, Government of Canada
Subject:	Employment insurance \| social assistance and other transfers \| Household \| family and personal income \| Income \| pensions \| spending and wealth \| Labour \| Low income and inequality

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Extent:	application/pdf
Series:	Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series.
Type of publication:	Book / Working Paper
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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