
Title:
Income inequality : the Canadian story
Publication Date:
2016
Publication Information:
Montreal, Quebec : Institute for Research on Public Policy, c2016.
Physical Description:
x, 547 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780886453299
Contents:
Trends in income inequality in Canada and elsewhere / Andrew Heisz -- Who are Canada's top 1 percent? / Thomas Lemieux and W. Craig Riddell -- What has happened to middle-class earnings in Canada? / Charles M. Beach -- Poverty dynamics among vulnerable groups in Canada / Tony Fang and Morley Gunderson -- Consumption inequality in Canada, 1997-2009 / Sam Norris and Krishna Pendakur -- Has the Canadian labour market polarized? / David A. Green and Benjamin M. Sand -- Changes in wage inequality in Canada: an interprovincial perspective perspective / Nicole M. Fortin and Thomas Lemieux -- The distributional impacts of an energy boom in western Canada / Joseph Marchand -- Immigration, poverty and income inequality in Canada / Garnett Picot and Feng Hou -- Technological change and declining immigrants' earnings outcomes: implications for income inequality in Canada / Casey Warman and Christopher Worswick -- What's so bad about increasing inequality in Canada? / Lars Osberg -- Why more education will not solve rising inequality (and may make it worse) / Kelly Foley and David A. Green -- Can labour relations reform reduce wage inequality? / Scott Legree, Tammy Schirle and Mikal Skuterud -- The role of taxes and transfers in reducing income inequality / Andrew Heisz and Brian Murphy -- Provincial taxation of high incomes: the effects on progressivity and tax revenue / Kevin Milligan and Michael Smart -- Framing the new inequality: the politics of income redistribution in Canada / Keith Banting and John Myles.
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Language:
English