In earlier work, the authors explored life-cycle consumption profiles of Canadian married couple families. That research concluded that the common presumption in simulation models of upward-sloping consumption-age profiles accompanied by dissaving in retirement could not be supported in Canadian...

In the United States the education premium - the ratio of the earnings of university graduates to the earnings of high school graduates - has risen sharply in the last 20 years. Some economists and policymakers presume the same fact holds in Canada. Since so much of modern growth theory and...

We study the dispersion of wages of full-time full-year workers over two decades controlling for both education and experience. Applying non-parametric statistical methods we find statistically significant and large increases in inequality for males with low levels of education and experience...