Les taux d'emploi et les gains des meres seules ont augmente sensiblement apres 1980 et, en 2000, les taux de faible revenu etaient descendus a de nouveaux creux record. Contrairement au cas des meres mariees, chez les meres seules la plus grande partie des hausses etait attribuable a la...

Employment rates and earnings among single mothers improved significantly after 1980, and by 2000, low-income rates reached new historic lows. Unlike married mothers, most of the gains among lone mothers were the result of the dynamics of population change and cohort replacement as the large and...

This study examines the relationship between individuals' health status and the socio-economic composition of the neighbourhoods in which they live. It combines individual microdata from Statistics Canada's 1996-97 National Population Health Survey (NPHS) with neighbourhood-level characteristics...

Dans cette etude, on examine le lien entre l'etat de sante des personnes et la composition socioeconomique des quartiers dans lesquels elles vivent. De plus, cette etude permet de coupler les microdonnees des particuliers tirees de l'Enquete nationale sur la sante de la population (ENSP) de...

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...

Le present document vise a determiner dans quelle mesure le revenu familial gagne pendant les annees de travail est < remplace > pendant les annees de retraite. A cette fin, on suit des cohortes au fur et a mesure qu'elles avancent en age, a partir du milieu de la cinquantaine jusqu'a la fin de leur...</remplace>

This paper examines the extent to which family income during working years is replaced during the retirement years. It does so by tracking cohorts as they age from their mid-50s to their late 70s, using a taxation-based longitudinal data source that covers 26 years from 1982 to 2007. Earlier...

Dans le present document, nous reexaminons les tendances au niveau des faibles revenus dans les familles canadiennes avec des enfants en tirant profit des progres recents au niveau de la mesure de l'intensite des faibles revenus. Nous axons notre attention en particulier sur l'indice de...

Des recherches anterieures ont montre que le systeme de pension du Canada est relativement efficace pour ce qui est d'aider les personnes agees a echapper a la pauvrete. Toutefois, la mesure dans laquelle le systeme de pension permet aux particuliers et aux familles de maintenir a la retraite...

All countries look to economic growth to reduce low-income. This paper focuses on the 1990s and assesses the role played by changes in economic growth, employment earnings and government transfers in the patterns of low-income intensity in Canada during the 1990s. We find that low-income...