Cet article vise a determiner dans quelle mesure le recours a l'assurance-chomage (a.-c.) d'un jeune adulte est conditionne par le recours anterieur a ce programme et par le recours d'un parent a l'a.-c. La capacite de determiner jusqu'a quel point la correlation intergenerationnelle du recours...

La presente etude repose sur l'appariement de donnees fiscales concernant les filles, leurs parents, leur partenaire et les parents de leur partenaire pour examiner les interactions entre la mobilite intergenerationnelle du revenu et l'appariement conjugal des jeunes couples au Canada. Nous...

This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled Are immigrants buying to get in? The role of ethnic clustering on the homeownership propensities of 12 Toronto immigrant groups, 1996-2001. Spatial assimilation theory is a model of status attainment that links the spatial and...

Our aim in this paper is to resolve a paradox. Since the 1970s, there has been a downward secular trend in the average real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in households headed by adults under 35, there has been no...

The upbringing of children is modeled as a modified principal agent problem in which children attempt to maximize their own well-being when faced with a parenting strategy chosen by the parent, to maximize parent's perception of family well-being. Thus, children as well as parents are players,...

This paper examines why rates of homeownership have been increasing amongst young higher-income households, but declining among young lower-income households. For the period from 1981 to 2006, household data from the Census of Population, supplemented with information from the Survey of...

La presente etude porte sur les raisons pour lesquelles les taux d'accession a la propriete ont augmente chez les jeunes menages a revenu eleve, mais ont baisse chez ceux a faible revenu. Les donnees sur les menages pour la periode allant de 1981 a 2006 tirees du Recensement de la population et...

Jusqu'a maintenant, les discussions portant sur le caractere adequat des pensions des Canadiens ages ont ete fondees sur le taux de diminution du revenu avec l'age, soit le taux de remplacement du revenu ou le ratio du revenu apres la retraite au revenu avant la retraite. Pour utiliser les flux...

Discussions of pension adequacy for elderly Canadians have used the rate at which income falls with age; the income replacement rate or the ratio of post-retirement income to pre-retirement income. Use of income streams to assess post-retirement welfare requires a standard against which adequacy...

L'education des enfants est modelisee en tant que probleme principal-agent modifie ou l'enfant tache de maximiser son propre bien-etre face a une strategie parentale destinee a maximiser la perception qu'a le parent du bien-etre de la famille. Ainsi, les enfants et les parents sont tous des...