Canada's consumer market for entertainment services grew almost 50% in real terms from 1986 to 1996. Canadians are sepnding more on renting cablevision, video games videotapes and satellite services, and they still attend live sports events, movies and theatre. As a result, spending on...

Des etudes anterieures ont revele une forte association entre le taux d?activite feminine dans le pays d?origine et l?activite des immigrantes dans le pays hote. Cette relation est interpretee comme le resultat de l?influence persistante des attitudes a l?egard des roles sexospecifiques dans le...

Dans la presente etude, on examine les strategies de gestion du revenu des couples canadiens dont au moins un des conjoints ou partenaires est age de 45 ans et plus a l'aide des donnees de l'Enquete sociale generale de 2007. On tache de determiner dans quelle mesure les couples optent pour...

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....

La presente etude porte sur la maniere dont le risque de perte d'emploi et les pertes de revenu a court terme des travailleurs mis a pied ont evolue entre la fin des annees 1970 et le milieu des annees 2000.

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.

In Canada, the selection of economic immigrants throughout the 1990s and 2000s was based largely on the human capital model of immigration. This model posits that selecting immigrants with high levels of human capital is particularly advantageous in the long run. It is argued that higher...