Canadians are increasingly concerned about rising job instability. Job instability can take various forms and can be measured in numerous ways. As part of a comprehensive research effort to examine job instability, this paper uses the Longitudinal Worker File (LWF) on the separations of Canadian...

A generalized Lorenz (GL) curve differs from a Lorenz curve in that the former is a rescaled version of the latter. A GL curve represents the relationship between the average income computed from a cumulative percentage of the population and the corresponding cumulative percentage. GL dominance...

Deprivation dominance is a useful concept for evaluating poverty profiles (poverty rate, gap, and inequality among the poor) across regions and/or over time. In this paper, we develop a distribution-free test for deprivation dominance---an one-sided joint test for the differences between two...

This paper investigates the inter-provincial labor mobility behavior of immigrants relative to that of native-born Canadians. Foreign-born Canadians differ a great deal from their domestically-born counterparts. The foreign-born population is geographically concentrated in a few provinces and a...