Labour force participation rates vary greatly by age, with persons 55 and over having much lower participation rates …-participation rate 65 and over age group. The movement of the baby boom generation into the 65 and over group in coming years will ….5 points. Of course, greater than expected trend increases in labour force participation rates by older age groups could offset …

as a cyclical response to weak employment opportunities in Canada. The authors find composition changes in the age … factors affecting labour force participation of the major age-sex groups, the authors forecast a rise in the aggregate … authors expect increases in labour force participation for all age-sex groups in Canada. Between 1998 and 2006, the …

generosity; an age or life-cycle effect; and a cohort-specific effect which shows the differences between cohorts for a given age … cohort effect so that the age profile and its slope can trace both the rise and the flattening of the participation rate by … age. They point out that over time participation behaviour of women 25-64 is converging toward that of men, namely, high …

Of the three major age groups, youth (aged 15-24), experienced the largest fall in labour force participation and … the equations estimated for the 15-24 age group, the cyclical variable accounts for about one half of the decline in the …

income measures (such as after-tax income) in both 1999 and 2005. The median household’s economic well-being was lower in …

current state of provincial differences in twenty-five economic variables related to income, productivity, the labour market …

We use the Levy Institute Measure of Economic Well-being (LIMEW), the most comprehensive income measure available to … represents the first international comparison based on LIMEW, which differs from the standard measure of gross money income (MI …) in that it includes noncash government transfers, public consumption, income from wealth, and household production, and …

, single-parent poverty, and old-age poverty – are discussed. The second objective is to consider the adequacy of our framework …

effects of unemployment go well beyond loss of income. Roughly 60 per cent of the newly unemployed, compared to about 40 per …