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"Midlife Crises": Understanding the Changing Nature of Relationships in Middle Age Canadian Families

Kobayashi, Karen M. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2007

the occurrence of life events in families (e.g., adult children leaving home, care for aging parents). It is noted that … home-leaving by adult children has been taking longer in recent years, and in many instances adult children return to their …

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The Impact of Lifecycle Events on Women’s Labour Force Transition: a Panel Analysis

Jeon, Sung-Hee - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2003

reductions in family earnings are strongly associated with labour force entry. Moreover, labour force transition probabilities …

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Welfare Policy, Language Group and the Duration of Lone Motherhood Spells

Dooley, Martin; Finnie, Ross - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2006

The duration of spells of lone motherhood has important consequences for the economic well being of the members of such families and the cost of social programs. We use a large sample of linked income tax records to estimate a competing risk model of the impact of welfare benefits, language...

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Learning Algorithms in a Decentralized General Equilibrium Model

Bruce, James - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2003

A model is developed in which economic agents learn to make price-setting, price-response, and resource allocation decisions in decentralized markets where all information and interaction is local. Computer simulation shows that it is possible for agents to act almost as if they had the...

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Revisiting the Family Investment Hypothesis

Cobb-Clark, Deborah; Crossley, Thomas F. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

The family investment hypothesis predicts that credit-constrained immigrant families adopt a household strategy for … granted a visa, dependent family members are automatically granted visas as well. Thus principal applicant status provides an … alternative way to identify primary and secondary workers in immigrant households. We exploit this idea to reevaluate the family …

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The Changing Economic Circumstances of the Older Population: A Cohort Analysis

Denton, Frank T.; Spencer, Byron G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1996

The paper provides an analysis of the economic circumstances of Canadian cohorts in older phases of the life cycle. It begins by discussing the definition of "old" and the case for an upward revision of the traditional age-65 definition. It then goes on to consider changes in patterns of labour...

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The Effect of RRSPs on Savings in Canada

Burbidge, John; Fretz, Deborah; Veall, Michael R. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1997

Do Registered Retirement Savings Plans (RRSPs) increase savings? It is unclear whether they are largely "savings-creating" (i.e. generate new savings) or are largely "savings-diverting" (i.e. the repository for shifted existing assets or for savings that would have been made without the plans)....

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The Independence and Economic Security of Older Women Living Alone

Smith, Rebecca; Magee, Lonnie; Robb, Leslie; Burbidge, John - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1997

Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF) and The Family Expenditure Survey (FAMEX). We examine Income and Expenditure Patterns over …

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Aggregation Effects on Price and Expenditure Elasticities in a Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System

Denton, Frank T.; Mountain, Dean C. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 2002

While it is well known that demand elasticities calculated at the macro level will in general differ from those calculated at the micro level because of aggregation effects there remain the questions of how large the effects are, and how they vary with the degree of nonuniformity in the income...

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A Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System Estimated with Pooled regional Time Series: Approximates Aggregation with an Accounting for Age, Cohort, and Trend Effects.

Denton, F.T.; Mountain, D.C.; Spencer, B.G. - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1996

Starting with a theoretical QUAIDS model at the micro level, an approximate aggregation is developed that allows the model to be applied to time series at the macro level (The approximated aggregation holds for a "representative" consumer with utility equal to the harmonic mean of the individual...

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