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An Overview of the Working Lives of Older Baby Boomers

Schellenberg, Grant; Bonikowska, Aneta - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2013

With the leading edge of the baby boom generation now in their mid-sixties, there is considerable interest in how and when these individuals will retire. To help place this issue in a broader context, this paper provides information on the employment histories of individuals who were aged 33 to...

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Earnings Inequality and Earnings Instability of Immigrants in Canada

Ostrovsky, Yuri - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

The deterioration of immigrants' entry earnings in Canada in the past three decades has been well documented. This study provides further insights into the changing fortunes of immigrants by focusing on their earnings inequality and earnings instability. The analysis is based on a flexible...

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Why Did Employment and Earnings Rise Among Lone Mothers During the 1980s and 1990s?

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett; Myers, Karen; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates …

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The Evolution of Pension Coverage of Young and Prime-aged Workers in Canada

Drolet, Marie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

In this paper, we assemble data from several household surveys to document how pension coverage of young and older workers has evolved in Canada between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. Our main findings are the following. First, both administrative data from the Pension Plans in Canada (PPIC)...

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Will They Ever Converge? Earnings of Immigrants and Canadian-born Workers over the Last Two Decades

Morissette, Rene; Frenette, Marc - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

Using census data covering the 1980 to 2000 period, we examine what outcomes would be necessary for cohorts of recent immigrants to achieve earnings parity with Canadian-born workers. Our results show that today's recent immigrants would have to experience a drastic rise of their relative...

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Income Security and Stability During Retirement in Canada

Picot, Garnett; Larochelle-Cote, Sebastien; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2008

achieved during their working years after retirement (income security) is less well understood. To help fill this knowledge gap … various measures of an individual's family income to study four main issues: change in income levels through retirement; the … role that various income sources play in this change; variation in replacement rates through time and between poorer and …

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Death and Divorce: The Long-term Consequences of Parental Loss on Adolescents

Heisz, Andrew; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1999

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 …

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The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers' Earnings in Canada

Gray, David; Finnie, Ross; Beach, Charles M. - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2006

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings variability has varied in terms of the unemployment rate and real gross domestic product (GDP) growth over this period. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation...

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The Instability of Family Earnings and Family Income in Canada, 1986 to 1991 and 1996 to 2001

Morissette, Rene; Ostrovsky, Yuri - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First …-1995 had, during the 1996-2001 period, much more unstable market income than their counterparts in the top tertile. Fourth … least two-thirds (and up to all) of the differences in instability (measured in terms of proportional income gains …

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Low-paid Work and Economically Vulnerable Families over the Last Two Decades

Picot, Garnett; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2005

earnings improved between the 1980s and the 1990s. Of all full-time employees, 5% were low-paid and lived in low income … mothers and persons living alone accounted for fully 71% of all full-time workers in low-paid jobs and in low-income, but only … 37% of all full-time workers. While members of these five groups account for the majority of low-paid workers in low-income …

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