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1. Adult criminal court statistics, 1997-1998 Archived
Articles and reports: 85-002-X19980148295
Geography: Canada
Description:
During 1997-98, adult criminal courts in the nine participating jurisdictions disposed of 411,576 cases, involving 864,837 charges.
Release date: 1998-12-17
2. A Profile of Youth Justice in Canada Archived
Journals and periodicals: 85-544-X
Geography: Canada
Description:
This publication presents information on youth crime and young offenders, including rates of crime, characteristics of young offenders and their victims, youth court cases, youth corrections, and repeat offenders.
Release date: 1998-12-15
3. Paying off student loans Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X19980034002
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines the extent of indebtedness, the repayment record and the impact of high debt on postsecondary graduates who used government loans to help finance their studies.
Release date: 1998-12-14
4. Canada's aboriginal languages Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X19980034003
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article explores Canada's Aboriginal languages, identifying those which are flourishing and those which are in danger of disappearing.
Release date: 1998-12-14
5. Literacy: does language make a difference? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X19980034004
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines the literacy profiles of anglophones and francophones, in terms of such variables as education, age and reading habits.
Release date: 1998-12-14
6. Skill deficits among the young Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X19980034005
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article focuses on the key factors associated with infrequent use of basic skills.
Release date: 1998-12-14
7. Ice Storm '98 ! Archived
Articles and reports: 11-008-X19980034006
Geography: Canada
Description: This study concentrates on the St. Lawrence River Valley, highlighting how the storm was dealt with and its aftermath.
Release date: 1998-12-14
8. The gambling industry: Raising the stakes Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19980044037
Geography: Canada
Description:
Since the introduction of casinos and video lottery terminals in the 1990s, growth in gambling has outstripped that of most other industries. This article updates an earlier examination of employment and government revenue for this industry, as well as average household spending on games of chance.
Release date: 1998-12-09
9. Family income inequality, 1970-1995 Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19980044039
Geography: Canada
Description:
Income inequality among families increased between 1970 and 1995 as a result of the recessions of the early eighties and nineties. This article looks at the extend of, and changes in, family income inequality over the period. It also demonstrates the role of government transfer payments and personal income taxes in reducing inequality.
Release date: 1998-12-09
10. Income transition upon retirement Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X19980044041
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines the situation of people who retired in the first half of the 1990s to see how well their retirement income has replaced their former income.
Release date: 1998-12-09

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21. Recent Canadian Evidence on Job Quality by Firm Size Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1998128
Geography: Canada
Description:
We provide recent evidence on job characteristics by firm size in Canada. Using a variety of household surveys, we assemble a wide set of facts on wages, fringe benefits and work schedules in small and large firms. We show that the wage gap between small and large firms has reamined fairly stable over the past decade. After controlling for observable worker characteristics and industry-specific effects, large firms pay 15-20% more than small firms. Pension plan coverage remains at least four times higher in large firms than in small firms. While the gap in pension coverage between small and large firms has not increased over time for men, there is some evidence that it has increased for women. We assess the extent to which work schedules vary between small and large firms. Our results indicate that compared to workers in large firms, employees of small firms work at least as many weekly hours. Furthermore, they are more likely to work more than five days per week. This implies that the firm size wage premium cannot be explained by a longer workweek in large firms. As long as workers prefer working during the day, the greater frequency of shift work in large, goods-producing companies is one dimension along which work schedules are less desirable in large firms. According to the theory of compensating differentials, the size-wage differential may partially reflect the willingness of large firms to compensate workers for shift work. We test this hypothesis and conclude that shift work has virtually no effect on the firm size wage premium. Our results emphasize the need to look at several dimensions of work to assess how job quality varies between small and large firms.
Release date: 1998-11-13
22. Introduction Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014017
Geography: Canada
Description:
The contributors to this book examine two broad themes related to the well-being of Canadian youth. First, they document the nature of the labour market facing young adults and how it has changed since they early 1970s. Second, the autors examine how families, communities, and the public sector influence some of the ways in which children become successful and self-reliant adults. The motivation for bringing these essays together has to do with the increasing importance of child well-being in public discourse and the development of public policy. The major message to emerge is that the future of Canada's children is both a good news, and a bad news story. Labour markets have changed dramatically, and on average it is now more difficult to obtain a strong foothold that will lead to increasing prosperity. Many young Canadians, however, are well prepared by their family and community backgrounds to deal with these new challenges, and as young parents are in a position to pass this heritage on their children. However, this has not been challenges in getting ahead in life. A companion volume published in February of 1998 by Statistics Canada called Government Finances and Generational Equity examines the operation of government taxes and transfers from a generational perspective, focusing on the conduct of fiscal policy and the relative status of individuals in successive generations.
Release date: 1998-11-05
23. Markets, families and social transfers: trends in low income among the young and old, 1973-95 Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014018
Geography: Canada
Description:
In this chapter we document trends in social transfers, market incomes and family composition from 1973 through 1995, and their impact on the incidence of low-income among four generations: children (new-borns to those 14 years of age), young adults (25 to 34), the older working-age population (45 to 54), and the elderly (over 65).
Release date: 1998-11-05
24. The declining labour market status of young men Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014019
Geography: Canada
Description:
The goal of this chapter is to document how the young fare in today's labour market. The focus is on young men for two reasons. First, most of the recent literature on the growth of earnings inequality has concentrated on the study of male earnings. This approach is chosen because one of the questions addressed is about the consequences of the growth of earnings inequality on youth age-earnings profiles. Second, and more importantly, the labour market behaviour of women is much more complicated to examine because their participation rates have changed dramatically over the last twenty years.
Release date: 1998-11-05
25. Intergenerational income mobility in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014020
Geography: Canada
Description:
Our objectives in this chapter are to determine the degree of intergenerational income mobility in Canada during the mid-1980s and 1990s and to investigate whether it has changed over time. In an era of increasing income inequality within a generation, it is important to understand whether equality of opportunity is preserved, or whether increasing polarization in labour market outcomes will be further exacerbated in the next generation.
Release date: 1998-11-05
26. How to get ahead in life: some correlates of intergenerational income mobility in Canada Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014021
Geography: Canada
Description:
The focus of this chapter is on the extent and nature of intergenerational income mobility, that is the degree to which an individual's income (as an adult) is related to the income earned by his or her parents (during the individual's childhood). As such our analysis is related to the economic literature surveyed for example in Becker and Tomes (1986), and more recently by Björklund and Jäntti (1997). However, we follow Hill and Duncan (1987) in suggesting that distinguishing between the various components of a family's income provides a way of incorporating both economic and sociological explanations into an empirical model of income mobility.
Release date: 1998-11-05
27. The impact of family disruption in childhood on demographic outcomes in young adulthood Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014022
Geography: Canada
Description:
The reproduction of poverty may very well result from the social behaviour of children as they attain adulthood and become parents. Consequently, we focus in this chapter on the impact that family life disruption has on the transition to family life in adulthood for the first generations of Canadian children experiencing parental divorce in significant proportions.
Release date: 1998-11-05
28. Child psychiatric disorders, poor school performance and social problems: the roles of family structure and low-income Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014023
Geography: Canada
Description:
The primary goal of this chapter is to improve our understanding of the roles that family structure and low-income play in the determination of psychiatric disorders, poor school performance, and social problems among Canadian children. While there is broad agreement that environmental factors have an impact on these outcomes, until recently there has been little or no Canadian data with which to assess the importance of socio-economic factors in determining the incidence and severity of such problems.
Release date: 1998-11-05
29. Intergenerational aspects of education and literacy skills acquisitions Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014024
Geography: Canada
Description:
In this chapter, we assess the family's role in determining the acquisition of higher education and literacy. More specifically, our objective is to relate individual educational attainment, literacy abilities, and labour market characteristics to parental educational and labour market attributes. We compare different age cohorts and thereby examine relationships between parents and children over more than one generation.
Release date: 1998-11-05
30. Healthcare utilization during the first year of life: the impact of social and economic background Archived
Articles and reports: 89-553-X19980014025
Geography: Canada
Description:
Socio-economic status - as measured by income, education and occupation - is a complex phenomenon used to describe social inequities. It is well known that people in lower socioeconomic categories experience higher mortality rates and poorer health than those further up the social ladder. In addition, differences in health by socio-economic status are most pronounced in early and late mid- life. However, it is not clearly understood why this is so.
Release date: 1998-11-05

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