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...

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...

A partir des donnees de l'Enquete de 1984 sur les avoirs et les dettes et de l'Enquete de 1999 sur la securite financiere, nous documentons l'evolution de l'inegalite de la richesse au Canada durant la periode de 1984 a 1999. Voici nos principales constatations: 1) l'inegalite de la richesse a...

Dans cette etude, on examine les tendances de l'inegalite du revenu familial durant les annees 1980 et 1990, en accordant une attention particuliere a la periode de reprise economique des annees 1990.

Fondee sur des donnees de recensement, cette etude du faible revenu chez les immigrants vise a determiner 1) si le taux de faible revenu a augmente chez les cohortes successives de nouveaux immigrants, en valeur absolue, et relativement a celui observe chez les Canadiens de naissance, 2) le cas...

Using data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, we document the evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) wealth inequality has increased between 1984 and 1999, 2) the growth in wealth...

This paper outlines the structure of payroll taxes and documents evidence on the level, growth and role of each component over the last three decades for Canada and for each province. Levied by both the federal and provincial governments, payroll taxes in Canada include four major components: i)...

This study uses census data to focus on low-income among immigrants, and asks a number of questions: (1) have low-income rates increased among successive cohorts of entering immigrants, both in absolute terms and relative to the Canadian born (they have), (2) is this increase due to changes in...

This article summarizes findings from the research paper entitled: The Impact of Macroeconomic Conditions on the Instability and Long-Run Inequality of Workers' Earnings in Canada. This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings...