Download or read book Basic Income for Canadians written by Evelyn L. Forget and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the COVID‐19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada's largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone. In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget offers a clear‐eyed look at how these emergency measures could be transformed into a program that ensures an adequate basic income for every Canadian. Forget details what we can learn from earlier basic income experiments in Canada and internationally. She weighs the options, investigates whether Canadians can afford a permanent basic income program and describes how it could best be implemented across the country. This accessible book offers everything a reader needs to decide if a basic income program is the right follow-up to the short-term government response to COVID‐19.
Download or read book Incomes of Canadians written by Jenny R. Podoluk and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is one of a series of monographs to be released as special studies of statistical data collected in the 1961 Census of Canada and on other surveys conducted by the Dominion Bureau of Statistics. This study undertakes to analyze various aspects of the income size distribution in Canada. The distribution of income by size usually measures how many or what proportion of persons or families have incomes of different sizes, for example, under $1,000, $2,000 to $3,000 and so forth or, in summary, how aggregate income is divided and the share of different groups in this division. ..."--Introduction.
Download or read book Income Inequality written by David Alan Green and published by Art of the State. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Rising income inequality has been at the forefront of public debate in Canada in recent years, yet there is still much to be learned about the economic forces driving the distribution of earnings and income in this country and how they might evolve in coming years. With research showing that the tax-and-transfer system is less effective than in the past in counteracting growing income disparities, the need for policy-makers to understand the factors at play is all the more urgent. The Institute for Research on Public Policy, in collaboration with the Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network, has gathered some of the country’s leading experts to provide new evidence on the causes and effects of rising income inequality in Canada and to consider the role of policy. Their research and analysis constitutes a comprehensive review of Canadian inequality trends in recent decades, including changing earnings and income dynamics among middle--class and top earners, wage and job polarization across provinces, and persistent poverty among vulnerable groups. The authors also examine the changing role of education and unionization, as well as the complex interplay of redistributive policies and politics, in order to propose new directions for policy. Amid growing anxieties about the economic prospects of the middle class, Income Inequality: The Canadian Story will inform the public discourse on this issue of central concern for all Canadians."--Publisher's website.
Download or read book The Economic Well Being of Canadians Is there a Growing Gap written by Christopher A. Sarlo and published by The Fraser Institute. This book was released on 2009 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the extent that consumption is a fair reflection of real economic well-being, the standard of living of the top 10% is about 3.85 times that of the bottom 10%, on an adult-equivalent basis. [...] Second, the paper will examine the issue of data reliability in the context of the measurement of inequality. [...] The April 1999 report of the Auditor General of Canada pointed out that the underground economy, which it defines as any "legal transactions in goods and services that are 'hidden', resulting in the evasion of taxes," (Canada, Office of the Auditor General, 1999: 2-7) amounted to about 4.5% of GDP. [...] While all of this literature suggests that there are good reasons for concern about the reliability of the income data that researchers use to study inequality, regrettably there does not appear to be a study which compares the size of the underground economy or of unreported income over the past several decades using the same methodology. [...] Unfortunately, there is little mention of the problem of unreported income in any of the studies dealing with the measurement of income inequality in Canada cited above.
Download or read book Income distributions by size in Canada written by Statistics Canada. Consumer Income and Expenditure Division and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Income in Canada written by Abdul Rashid and published by Scarborough, Ont. : Prentice-Hall. This book was released on 1994 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyses changes in family income over the last two decades using data from the Censuses of Canada taken in 1971, 1981, 1986 and 1991.
Download or read book The Age of Increasing Inequality written by Lars Osberg and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Canada is in a new era. For 35 years, the country has become vastly wealthier, but most people have not. For the top 1%, and even more forthe top 0.1%, the last 35 years have been a bonanza. Canadians know very well that there's a huge problem. It's expressed in resistance to tax increases, concerns over unaffordable housing, demands for higher minimum wages, and pressure for action on the lack of good full time jobs for new graduates. This book documents the dramatic and rapid growth in inequality. It identifies the causes. And it proposes meaningful steps to halt and reverse this dangerous trend. Lars Osberg looks separately at the top, middle and bottom of Canadian incomes. He provides new data which will surprise, even shock, many readers. He explains how trade deals have contributed to putting a lid on incomes for workers. The gradual decline of unions in the private sector has also been a factor. On the other end of the scale, he explains the growing high salaries for corporate executives, managers, and some fortunate professionals. Lars Osberg believes that increasing inequality is bad for the country, and its unfairness is toxic to public life. But there is nothing inevitable about this, and he points to innovative measures that would produce a fairer distribution of wealth among all Canadians.
Download or read book Census of Canada 1961 written by Statistics Canada and published by . This book was released on 1968 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book To what Extent are Canadians Exposed to Low income electronic Resource written by Marie Drolet and published by Income Statistics Division, Statistics Canada. This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this paper, we investigate the extent to which Canadians were exposed to low income during the 1993-1996 period. Our main findings are the following. First, while 1 in 10 Canadians live in families with low income in a given year, as many as 1 in 5 are exposed to at least one year of low income during a 4-year interval. Second, 1 in 20 Canadians are exposed to low income for 4 consecutive years. Third, 40% to 60% of individuals who fall into low income in a given year will no longer have low income the following year. Fourth, some spells of low income last a long time: of all spells started in 1994, 30% lasted 3 years or more. Fifth, Canadians who are the most susceptible to low income tend to be young; to have little education; to be students and to live as unattached individuals or in lone-parent families. As well, Canadians facing disabilities that entail work limitations; those who are members of visible minorities (when considering the exposure to 4 years of low income) or who have immigrated in or after 1977 tend to experience low income. Sixth, high probabilities of being exposed to low income do not necessarily imply high income gaps, that is, the average income of those in low income may be quite close to the low income cut-off. As a result, a complete understanding of the extent to which Canadians are exposed to low income requires an analysis of both the probabilities of being exposed and the income gaps while being exposed.
Download or read book Income Mobility the Rich and Poor in Canada written by Herbert Grubel and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One set of government statistics shows that the average incomes of Canadians in the lowest quintile of the distribution, the “poor”, remained constant during the period from 1990 to 2009. Another set of government statistics indicates that, over the same period, the “poor” enjoyed a 180% increase in income. Similarly different results exist for the “middle class” and the “rich”. This study explains the reasons for this difference and questions the merit of the present practice of using only the information about the constancy of incomes of the poor in the design of government policies for the creation of a fair distribution of income.The main explanation of the different results about incomes is that the traditional measure of income equality uses snapshots of incomes of the population every year, which causes different people to constitute the poor, middle class and rich at any given time period. On the other hand, the mobility statistics trace through time the incomes of a given set of people. These data show that 87% of Canadians who were poor in 1990 had much higher incomes 19 years later, reflecting their well-known move along the age-income profile or escaping temporary low incomes caused by unemployment, illnesses and similar influences.The study also discusses the characteristics of the rich in Canada, how they earn their income and how they spend it. Canada's rich are mostly professionals in business, health-care, sports and entertainment They earn their income by selling their services to willing buyers. The billionaires similarly earned their wealth in this way. They spend much of it on charitable causes. The incomes of professionals has increased along with globalization of markets for products and labour as well as higher incomes of the production of these professionals. The growth in their incomes reflects their participation in global markets for their skills.
Download or read book Econometric Study of Incomes of Canadian Families 1967 written by Canada. Dominion Bureau of Statistics and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Family Income and Expenditure in Canada 1937 1938 A Study of Urban Wage earner Families Including Data on Physical Attributes written by Canada Dominion Bureau of Statistics and published by Hassell Street Press. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Download or read book Basic Income for Canadians written by Evelyn L. Forget and published by James Lorimer & Company. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the idea of providing a basic income to everyone in Canada who needs it was already gaining broad support. Then, in response to a crisis that threatened to put millions out of work, the federal government implemented new measures which constituted Canada?s largest ever experiment with a basic income for almost everyone. In this new and revised edition, Evelyn L. Forget offers a clear-eyed look at how these emergency measures could be transformed into a program that ensures an adequate basic income for every Canadian. Forget details what we can learn from earlier basic income experiments in Canada and internationally. She weighs the options, investigates whether Canadians can afford a permanent basic income program and describes how it could best be implemented across the country. This accessible book offers everything a reader needs to decide if a basic income program is the right follow-up to the short-term government response to COVID-19.
Download or read book Charting Canadian Incomes 1951 1981 written by Statistics Canada. Consumer Income and Expenditure Division and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Income of Immigrants in Canada written by Roderic P. Beaujot and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book New Views on Inequality Trends in Canada and the United States written by Michael C. Wolfson and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cost to Canadians of Complying with Personal Income Taxes written by François Vaillancourt and published by The Fraser Institute. This book was released on 2010 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
