This is just a quick follow up on Tammy Schirle's post, "On the 'typical' family in Budget 2015." Canadians may be familiar with the story of Henry and Cathy, and their two kids, who have benefited …
Lire le textePour réfléchir aÌ€ l'EÌtat-providence canadien, aÌ€ ses réali- sations passées comme aux défis aÌ€ venir, j'aimerais tout d'abord évoquer la pensée d'Amartya Sen, prix Nobel d'économie 1998. Une pensée clairement résumée dans son populaire ouvrage …
Lire le texteThe changing world of work is also a changing world of pay, a world that will likely lean toward greater wage-rate inequalities, stagnating incomes for the bottom 40 percent, and greater income insecurity for the …
Lire le texteIn thinking about the Canadian welfare state, about past accomplishments and future challenges, I would like to begin by borrowing a few pages from the work of Amartya Sen, the 1998 Nobel laureate in economics. …
Lire le texteIt is sometimes said that think tanks are good for democracy; indeed, the more of them the better. If there are more ideas in the public arena battling it out for your approval, then it's …
Lire le texteYou could almost hear the air rushing out of a political agenda tailored around middle class malaise immediately after The New York Times published a story last April called ”œThe American Middle Class Is No Longer the …
Lire le texteNotice was given quietly by Statistics Canada last June: “This is the last release of longitudinal data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID). Effective with next year's release of 2011 data, only …
Lire le texteI've been waiting patiently for Tony Atkinson's new book---Inequality: What can be done?---to ship, which according to Amazon.ca is supposed to happen sometime early in May. Professor Atkinson is the dean of inequality studies, having done …
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