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...

L'analyse de donnees administratives devenues disponibles recemment dans un certain nombre de pays a mene a la conclusion qu'une etude minutieuse de l'interaction entre les caracteristiques de l'employeur et celles des employes est necessaire pour bien interpreter les resultats observes sur le...

Our objective is to obtain an accurate estimate of the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada. We use income tax information on about 400,000 father-son pairs, and find intergenerational earnings elasticities to be about 0.2. Earnings mobility tends to be slightly greater than...

The exploration of newly available administrative data in a number of countries has led to a growing realization that a careful study of the interaction between employer and employee characteristics is needed to fully understand labour market outcomes. The objective of this paper is to develop...

L'article porte sur la robustesse d'une mesure de la duree complete moyenne du chomage au Canada par rapport a diverses hypotheses de calcul. Contrairement a la duree incomplete moyenne du chomage, qui est un indicateur cyclique retarde, cette statistique est un indicateur contemporain du cycle...

Le present document expose une nouvelle methode de mesure de la duree moyenne des periodes de chomage en se fondant sur des donnees recueillies au Canada. Il resume en termes generaux les travaux de Corak (1993) ainsi que de Corak et Heisz (1994) portant sur la periode moyenne complete de...

Le but de la presente analyse est d'etablir une estimation exacte du degre de mobilite intergenerationnelle du revenu au Canada. A partir des donnees sur l'impot sur le revenu pour quelque 400 000 paires pere-fils, nous en sommes arrives a une elasticite intergenerationnelle des gains dont la...

Two quasi-experiments are used to estimate the impact of parental divorce on the adult incomes and labour market behaviour of adolescents, as well as on their use of social programs, and their marital/fertility behaviour. These involve the use of individuals experiencing the death of a parent,...

The objective of this paper is to examine the extent to which an individual's use of unemployment insurance (UI) as a young adult is influenced by past experience with the program, and by having had a parent who also collected UI. A major methodological challenge is to determine the extent to...

The relationship between family income and postsecondary participation is studied in order to determine the extent to which higher education in Canada has increasingly become the domain of students from well-to-do families. An analysis of two separate data sets suggests that individuals from...