This paper describes how the analytical program of Statistics Canada's productivity group is used to enhance the quality (relevance, coherence, interpretability) of its products.
The report examines employment, unemployment, work activity, earnings, industrial structure, industry concentration and diversity, and human capital and population growth due to immigration and inter-CMA mobility in census metropolitan areas (CMAs) between 1981 and 2001. The report uses the 1981, 1991 and 2001 censuses of Canada, and the 1987-2003 Labour Force Survey.
This paper studies the effect of selective attrition on estimates of immigrant earnings growth based on repeated cross-sectional data in Canada. Recent evidence from longitudinal data in the United States shows that the earnings gap between immigrants and the U.S.-born closes more slowly over time in the years following landing than previous cross-sectional estimates have suggested. This is because results based on repeated cross-sectional data contained a bias introduced by selective attrition of immigrants. This study uses longitudinal tax data linked to immigrant landing records in order to estimate the change in immigrant earnings and the immigrant-Canadian-born earnings gap. The results are compared with those from repeated cross-sectional data. When one focuses on the earnings growth of immigrants, earnings trajectories based on repeated cross-sections are found to be biased marginally upwards as a result of selective immigrant attrition. However, no evidence is found of a bias in the trajectory of the immigrant-Canadian-born earnings gap on the basis of repeated cross-sectional data in Canada. While low-earning immigrants are more likely than their high-earning counterparts to leave the cross-sectional samples over time, the same is true of the Canadian-born population. Thus, no evidence of a bias is observed when one compares immigrant earnings trajectories with the trajectories of the Canadian-born.
Using data from the Longitudinal Administrative Database (LAD), this paper compares the distributions of earnings replacement rates achieved by retired men who were or were not members of a registered pension plan (RPP) in 1991 and/or 1992. It builds on the Ostrovsky and Schellenberg (2009) analysis by examining the range of outcomes experienced by male RPP members and non-members - specifically, the distributions of earnings replacement rates achieved by each group. The paper begins with a short overview of the data source, sample, and concepts used in their study. The authors then present descriptive information on the earnings replacement rates achieved by RPP members and RPP non-members. Supplementary charts and a text table are included in the appendix, along with results from several multivariate models.--Document.
This paper compares the retirement transitions and income characteristics of seniors who were, and seniors who were not, pension plan members earlier in life. The Longitudinal Administrative Data (LAD) base is used to identify employed Canadians who were and who were not pension plan members in 1991and/or 1992, when they were in their mid-fifties. These same individuals are identified twelve to fifteen years later, when in their late sixties and early seventies. Amounts and sources of income received, retirement status, and earnings replacement rates are compared between groups. The paper provides data and methodology used, both descriptive and multivariate results, and finally, conclusions and implications of the study. Tables are divided up by gender and annual income earnings, as well as annual market income and total income.--Includes text from document.
Canadian Social Trends is an invaluable text and reference series, offering a unique look at social changing in Canada - what is happening, why it is happening, and the prospects for the future. The material is topical, carefully researched, clearly written and it is amply supported with photographs and graphs, charts and tables."--Back cover
Thank you for visiting our website. Would you like to provide feedback on how we could improve your experience?
This site does not use any third party cookies with one exception — it uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyze traffic.Learn More.