We propose an empirical likelihood-based method of inference for comparing inequality between two populations. A series of Monte Carlo experiments are used to assess our method’s finite sample performance. We illustrate our approach using some Canadian household income data.

A growing body of literature is emerging on empirical likelihood methods for complex surveys. These works largely focus on the population mean. We propose a weighted empirical likelihood approach as a method of inference for quantiles under stratified random sampling, which is one of the most...

The objective of this paper is to present the role and importance of internal control systems in good risk management practice, with a particular emphasis on the internal audit and compliance functions within such a framwork. Our focus is on the Life and Health Insurance industry in Canada.

More knowledge on combustion of agricultural crops is needed because of increased interest in using farm-grown biomass for energy production purposes. Presently, uncertainty regarding fuel quality and combustion-related emissions hinders the sustainable development of the agricultural biomass...

yield cross-wage elasticities that are substantially higher (in absolute value) than those derived from OLS regressions run on micro data. Both grouping estimators indicate that the labour supply of Canadian wives responded strongly to changes in husbands' wages during the 1980s. For the 1990s,...

This paper assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings, and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1980s and the 1990s. We find that lowincome intensity was higher in most provinces during the 1990s than during the 1980s...

We investigate how family earnings instability evolved between the late 1980s and the late 1990s and how family income instability varies across segments of the (family-level) earnings distribution. We uncover four key patterns. First, among the subset of families who were intact over the...

In this paper, we assemble data from several household surveys to document how pension coverage of young and prime-aged workers has evolved in Canada between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. We show that between 1986 and 1997 pension coverage has fallen significantly for men, has dropped...