poverty. Thus, the upward pressure on low income among children stemming from the labour market has been offset by social … 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 …

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

poverty. However, the extent to which the pension system enables individuals and families to maintain living standards … 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 …

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 …