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Differences in Innovator and Non-innovator Profiles: Small Establishments in Business Services

Gellatly, Guy - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

This paper explores differences between innovative and non-innovative establishments in business service industries. It …

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Understanding the Innovation Process: Innovation in Dynamic Service Industries

Gellatly, Guy; Peters, Valerie - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

In studies of business innovation, the term innovation process is used to describe (i) the array of sources and … service industries: communications, financial services, and technical business services. This paper explores the principal …

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The Income Management Strategies of Older Couples in Canada

Laporte, Christine; Schellenberg, Grant - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2011

In this study, the income management strategies of Canadian couples are examined using data from the 2007 General Social Survey. The extent to which "older" couples, in which at least one spouse or partner is aged 45 or older, employ an allocative, pooled, or separate strategy is explored....

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How Have the Risk of Layoff and Earnings Losses of Laid-off Workers Evolved Since the Late 1970s in Canada?

Qiu, Theresa; Chan, Winnie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2011

This study examines how the risk of job loss and the short-term earnings losses of laid-off workers evolved between the late 1970s and the mid-2000s.

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Life Satisfaction and Income in Canadian Urban Neighbourhoods

Hou, Feng - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2014

An emerging area of subjective well-being (SWB) research is centered on the differences in the levels of SWB both across countries and among geographic regions within a country. The consideration of geographic differences would extend our knowledge about the determinants of SWB from "internal"...

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The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Canada, 1984-1999

Drolet, Marie; Zhang, Xuelin; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2002

Using data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, we document the evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) wealth inequality has increased between 1984 and 1999, 2) the growth in wealth...

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The Rise in Low-income Rates Among Immigrants in Canada

Hou, Feng; Picot, Garnett - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2003

1990 to 2000, years that are roughly at business cycle peaks. The study finds that low-income rates among "recent … the late 1990s. However, when focusing on outcomes at business cycle peaks (1980, 1990 and 2000) to establish comparable …

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Social Transfers, Changing Family Structure, and Low Income Among Children

Picot, Garnett; Myles, John - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1995

households headed by adults under 35, there has been no corresponding secular rise in the incidence of low income among children …. Rather child poverty has followed the usual fluctuations of the business cycle. We show that the relative stability in … income in young households with children has been offset by rising transfers. Since the 1970s, social transfers have replaced …

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To What Extent Are Canadians Exposed to Low Income?

Drolet, Marie; Morissette, Rene - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 2000

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...

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The Intergenerational Earnings and Income Mobility of Canadian Men: Evidence from Longitudinal Income Tax Data

Heisz, Andrew; Corak, Miles - Statistics Canada, Government of Canada - 1998

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...

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