This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-2006. We decompose the total variance of workers' earnings into a 'permanent' component between workers and a 'transitory' earnings instability component over time for given workers. We then investigate the...

Our focus is on the event of receipt of low-income support benefits amongst Canadians who are 65 or older. The outcome that we model empirically is the incidence rate for Guaranteed Income Supplement (GIS) benefits. We estimate multivariate models to investigate the effects of age, cohort,...

Our topic is the receipt patterns of low-income support benefits in the form of the guaranteed income supplement (GIS) benefit amongst Canadians who are 65 and older. The GIS regime is the only means-tested public retirement benefit that is targeted to the group of retired individuals and...

Le present document a pour but d'examiner la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de 1982 a 2000 selon une approche descriptive graphique a l'aide du fichier de la banque de Donnees administratives longitudinales. A l'exemple de Gottschalk et Moffitt (1994), nous decomposons la...

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...

The central objective of this study is to investigate the income sources and patterns of prime-age and older workers who suffer a layoff from steady employment. We focus on a set of cohorts who are deemed to have a high degree of attachment to the labour force preceding the event of an...

This paper uses LAD panel data to investigate how variability of workers' earnings and earnings instability for Canada changed between 1982­89 and 1990­97. Following the methodology of Gottschalk and Moffitt (1994), we decompose the total variation of workers' earnings into permanent variation...

Le present article resume les conclusions de le document de recherche intitulee : L'effet des conditions macroeconomiques sur l'instabilite et l'inegalite a long terme des gains des travailleurs au Canada. Le present document porte sur la variabilite des gains des travailleurs au Canada de...

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-1997 and how earnings variability has varied in terms of the unemployment rate and real gross domestic product (GDP) growth over this period. Using a large panel of tax file data, we decompose total variation...