immigrants as for the entire population, and there is more generational mobility among immigrants in Canada than in the United …

pauvreté et l'exclusion sociale to guarantee every individual an income equal to 80% of Statistics Canada's Market Basket …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty rankings across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

The paper proposes and applies statistical tests for poverty dominance that check for whether poverty comparisons can … be made robustly over ranges of poverty lines and classes of poverty indices. This helps provide both normative and … statistical confidence in establishing poverty ranking across distributions. The tests, which can take into account the complex …

This study examines the dynamics of poverty for four OECD countries (Canada, Germany, the United Kingdom and the United … States). It provides information on patterns of poverty, which groups stay in poverty the longest, and household …/individual characteristics and life-course events which appear to be most closely associated with transitions into and out of poverty and the …

Poverty is generally defined as income or expenditure insufficiency, but the economic condition of a household also … depends on its real and financial asset holdings. This paper investigates measures of poverty that rely on indicators of … household net worth. We review and assess two main approaches followed in the literature: income-net worth measures and asset-poverty …

underlying factors at work. While lone-parent poverty has fallen dramatically, Canada's overall poverty reduction since mid-1990s … half of the median income), Canada's poverty rate in mid-2000s was above that of the typical OECD country. The study …From 1996 to 2007, the poverty rate among the two million Canadians living in lone-parent families fell by more than …

In Canada, poverty policy and discourse focuses on annual estimates of low income. Assuming that assets, independent … from income, represent an alternative view of well-being we introduce an asset-based measurement of poverty for Canada … asset poverty rates were approximately two to four times higher than the corresponding low-income rates. We show for the …

We present and assess extensive statistics regarding poverty rates and depths for Vancouver, B.C., and Canada. We show … that not only are single adults in B.C. the most likely to experience poverty, but they also experience the deepest level … of poverty. Both single adults and single parents who are younger (i.e., ages 18–24) are more likely to be in poverty and …

This paper compares the poverty reduction impact of income sources, taxes and transfers across five OECD countries … analysis, it is done by using the Shapley value. Estimates of the poverty reduction impact are presented in a normalized and un …