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51. 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
52. What will we be leaving you? Archived
Articles and reports: 68-513-X19970013572
Geography: Canada
Description:
The inspiration and content of this volume owe much to Larry Kotlikoff, Alan Auerbach and their collaborators for their pioneering work in the development of Generational Accounting. These papers include the latest efforts to apply their accounting framework to Canada as well as numerous extensions of parallel thinking to a far broader range of legacies. Both of these lines of research make use of Statistics Canada's unmatched sources of data and analytical capacities, so the sponsorship and content of this book make a natural match.
Release date: 1998-02-04
53. Differences in Strategies and Performances of Different Types of Innovators Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M1997102
Geography: Canada
Description:
The strategies and competencies of small and medium-sized firms are explored here using the responses to the Survey of Growing Small and Medium Size Enterprises, conducted by Statistics Canada. The paper classifies small and medium-sized firms by innovator type and explores the complementary strategies in management, marketing, human resources and financing that are adopted by each innovator type and the success of each type of innovator.
A taxonomy of innovative types is developed that is based on the product/process development orientation of the firm. Differences in competencies in the area of human resources, management, marketing and finance that are possessed by firms in each group are examined. Firms are classified into one of four groups-product innovators, comprehensive (product and process) innovators, process innovators, or non-innovators-based on their responses to 22 innovation-related questions on the survey. These groups correspond to different stages in the development of a product market. Product innovators occupy the first stage, the time when the product is initially introduced. Comprehensive innovators represent the second stage, when the product demand is still growing, and firms in addition to producing new products, have begun to make dramatic improvements in their production efficiencies, by concentrating on process innovations as well as product innovations. Process innovators represent the third phase in the development of a product market, when the product characteristics have become established, and firms seek to improve their market share mainly by improving their production efficiencies. Finally, the last phase is characterized by a relatively stable product line, with a mature production technology.
The competencies of firms differ across these innovative types. Comprehensive innovators tend to develop greater capabilities than the other innovators in a wide range of areas. Comprehensive innovators also tend to outperform the other innovators in terms of growth in sales, market share, and employment size.
Innovators also tailor their financial strategies to their innovator type. Product innovators focus on a low debt/asset strategy with non-standard sources like venture capital. In later stages of the innovation life cycle-comprehensive and process innovators place great emphasis on higher debt/asset ratios and make greater use of long-term debt and equity capital.
Release date: 1998-01-22
54. The Statistical Discrepancy in Canada's Balance of Payments, 1962 to 1991 Archived
Articles and reports: 67F0001M1997004
Geography: Canada
Description:
The study provides an overall assessment of Canada's balance of payments statistics with a special focus on the statistical discrepancy over the 1970 to 1991 period.
Release date: 1997-05-13
55. Globalization and Canada's International Investment Position, 1950 to 1992 Archived
Articles and reports: 67F0001M1997006
Geography: Canada
Description:
This document describes how globalization has affected the components of Canada's external position from the mid 1970s on.
Release date: 1997-05-13
56. The Foreign Investment of Trusteed Pension Funds, 1970 to 1992 Archived
Articles and reports: 67F0001M1997007
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper first conducts a general review of trusteed pension funds, their definition, assets and growth. It then focusses on the foreign assets of these funds.
Release date: 1997-05-13
57. Graphical Description of Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) Content Archived
Articles and reports: 75F0002M1995010
Description:
This paper provides a graphical description of the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) information.
Release date: 1995-12-30

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31. Global Links: Long-term Trends in Foreign Investment and Foreign Control in Canada, 1960 to 2000 Archived
Articles and reports: 11-622-M2005008
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper outlines broad changes in foreign ownership in Canada over the last forty years. It makes use of several different but complementary data sources that are produced by Statistics Canada to analyze the importance of foreign ownership in Canada. Over the last four decades, foreign multinationals that are operating in Canada have experienced first, a retrenchment and then, a resurgence in their activities. This retrenchment occurred during the period when foreign investment was tightly regulated and could be found across most industries, but was particularly evident in the energy and mining sector. The resurgence that has occurred subsequent to the introduction of a more liberal regulatory regime was also relatively widespread, though there are several sectors like the science-based and energy industries where this has not occurred.
Release date: 2005-11-18
32. Profitability in farming: Rates of return and comparison to other industries (I-E) Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0024M20050008659
Description:
Traditionally rates of return in the agriculture sector have been calculated on the market value of the assets as opposed to the historical cost. In other sectors rates of return are calculated on the basis of the historical cost of the assets which has meant that rates of returns in agriculture are not comparable to those in other sectors.
This paper calculates rates of return for incorporated farms, based on the historical cost of the assets and compares these rates of returns to those in other sectors. It also measures the impact of capital gains on the rates of return for the agriculture sector. In the final section of the paper we measure the level of risk with the rates of return both in the agricultural sector and in other sectors.
Release date: 2005-10-20
33. Canadian Direct Investment in 'Offshore Financial Centers' Archived
Articles and reports: 11-621-M2005021
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article analyses Canadian direct investment abroad in 'Offshore Financial Centers' between 1990 and 2003. It provides an analysis of the distribution of Canadian direct investment assets in these countries and elsewhere in the world by industry. Lastly, it measures and analyses these countries' contribution to the growth of assets held abroad by Canadian companies during the period.
Release date: 2005-03-14
34. National versus domestic output: A measure of economic maturity? Archived
Articles and reports: 11-010-X20040127744
Geography: Canada
Description:
Recent media reports suggest that the ratio of gross national income (formerly gross national product) to gross domestic product reflects a nation's 'economic maturity'. Nations at a higher stage of economic development generally have a GNI larger than GDP because of their past investments abroad. Less developed countries that depend on large inflows of foreign investment to finance their growth have a smaller GNI than GDP. This article analyzes how relevant these suggestions are for the Canadian economy. Since 1998, our ratio of GNI to GNP has risen 96% to 98%. In dollar terms, Canadians would have received $16.4 billion less income if GNI had grown only as fast as GDP, equivalent to $512 for every Canadian. Based on recent trends, Canada's GNI could outstrip its GDP for the first time on record before the end of the current decade.
Release date: 2004-12-16
35. Shifts in consumer spending Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200410613122
Geography: Canada
Description:
This paper examines the effects of changes in consumer spending and asset holdings over the last 20 years on the economic landscape.
Release date: 2004-09-21
36. Partial portrait of farm investments in environmental protection Archived
Articles and reports: 21-004-X20040036776
Geography: Canada, Province or territory
Description:
In 2001, the total value of certain farm investments for environmental protection was $170.9 million, an average of $1,091 per farm. These investments accounted for a very small proportion of total investments by Canadian farmers.

In some cases, there are substantial differences in environmental protection investments between provinces and between farm types. Farms in Quebec, Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia spend more on environmental protection, as do hog, dairy and poultry farms.

The data in this article are from the Farm Financial Survey (FFS). The data were collected by telephone interview from a sample of 18,000 farms with a gross farm income of $10,000 or more. The purpose of the survey is to collect financial data, chiefly on assets, debt, revenues, expenses and investments.

In 2002, for the first time, the survey collected data on the amount of money invested in 2001 in certain environmental protection improvements: manure storage systems; pesticide, chemical or fuel storage systems; and shelterbelts, windbreaks, buffer strips or fences for waterway protection.

Release date: 2004-03-31
37. Family wealth across the generations Archived
Articles and reports: 75-001-X200311013102
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article examines the changes to family wealth during the economic boom of 1984 to 1999. In the absence of longitudinal data, changes in family wealth can be estimated using cohorts of 'similar' families from two points in time.
Release date: 2003-12-08
38. Adapting to Change: The Life and Health Insurance Industry Amidst a Changing Financial Services Landscape Archived
Articles and reports: 63F0002X2002039
Description:
The paper presents a general statistical profile of the life and health insurance industry from 1988 to 1998. Trends are presented in view of the industry's evolving regulatory environment, and aggregate comparisons of this industry are made to the deposit-accepting intermediaries industry.
Release date: 2002-06-28
39. The Evolution of Wealth Inequality in Canada, 1984-1999 Archived
Articles and reports: 11F0019M2002187
Geography: Canada
Description:
Using data from the Assets and Debts Survey of 1984 and the Survey of Financial Security of 1999, we document the evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) wealth inequality has increased between 1984 and 1999, 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real average and median wealth for young couples with children and recent immigrants, 3) real median wealth and real average wealth rose much more among family units whose major income recipient is a university graduate than among other family units, 4) real median and average wealth fell among family units whose major income recipient is aged 25-34 and increased among those whose major income recipient is aged 55 and over, 5) the aging of the Canadian population over the 1984-1999 period has tended to reduce wealth inequality, 6) diverging changes in permanent income do not explain a substantial portion of the growing gap between low-wealth and high-wealth family units. Factors that may have contributed to rising wealth inequality - which cannot be quantified with existing data sets - include differences in the growth of inheritances, inter vivos transfers, rates of return on savings and number of years worked full-time. In particular, rates of return on savings may have increased more for wealthy family units than for their poorer counterparts as a result of the booming stock market during the 1990s.
Release date: 2002-02-22
40. Adapting to change: the life and health insurance industry amidst a changing financial services landscape Archived
Articles and reports: 63-016-X20010036067
Geography: Canada
Description:
This article presents a general statistical profile of the life and health insurance industry amidst a rapidly changing financial services landscape in Canada. The economic performance of the industry is analyzed in terms of economic output, employment and industrial structure over a ten-year period from 1988 to 1998.
Release date: 2002-01-23

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