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Welfare Benefits and incomes of Canadian Families: A Dynamic Analysis of Marital-Cohabitation Dissolution

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Le développement dans les années récentes, de différentes sources de données individuelles longitudinales a rendu possible la mise en oeuvre de modélisations économétriques des différences de trajectoires individuelles. Les données qui nous intéressent sont celles de l'Enquête sociale générale sur la famille et les amis, réalisée en 1990 par Statistique Canada. Ces données permettent de reconstruire à rebours l'histoire de vie matrimoniale et conjugale d'un large échantillon de Canadiennes et de Canadiens. Des modèles statistiques de durée décrivent les lois d'évolution des mariages et des unions conditionnellement à diverses variables explicatives, de nature socio-démographiques et économiques, communes ou non à tous les individus, certaines fixes et d'autres variables dans le temps. La modélistion empirique s'attache plus particulièrement à mesurer l'effet des revenus de travail des couples et des programmes provinciaux d'aide sociale sur les ruptures de mariages et d'unions, à l'aide d'un sous-échantillon d'hommes et de femmes ayant vécues un premier mariage ou une première union. Les résultats montrent d'une part que des modèles de durée des mariages (unions) sont estimés plus efficacement lorsqu'ils intègrent des variables économiques et d'autre part que l'Aide sociale ne semble pas influencer les probabilités de rupture de la vie en couple mais que les revenus de travail ont un effet positif sur la stabilité conjugale. Econometric modelling of differences in individual paths has been made possible in recent years by the development of various sources of individual longitudinal data. The interesting data are those of Statistics Canada's Social General Survey on Family and Friends, carried out in 1990. With this data, by going backwards in time we can piece together the matrimonial and conjugal life history of a large sample of Canadian men and women. Some statistical models of duration (Co'xs proportional hazard model) describe the evolutionaly laws of marriages and unions, which depend on various explanatory variables of a socio-demographic or economic nature, shared or not by all individuals, some of them constant and others varying over time. The empirical modelling is mostly focused on estimating the impact of couples'earned incomes and of the provincial welfare programs on the dissolution of marriages and unions, based on a sub-sample of men and women who have already been in a first marriage or cohabitation. According to the estimation results, on the one hand models of marriage-cohabitation duration are more efficiently estimated when they incorporate economic variables, and on the other hand, welfare benefits do not seem to have an impact on the probabilities of union dissolution, while earned incomes have a positive effect on conjugal stability.

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  • Pierre Lefebvre & Philip Merrigan, 1995. "Welfare Benefits and incomes of Canadian Families: A Dynamic Analysis of Marital-Cohabitation Dissolution," Cahiers de recherche du Département des sciences économiques, UQAM 9504, Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des sciences économiques.
  • Handle: RePEc:cre:uqamwp:9504
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    1. Felteau, Claude & Lefebvre, Pierre & Merrigan, Philip & Brouillette, Liliane, 1997. "Conjugalité et fécondité des femmes canadiennes : un modèle dynamique estimé à l’aide d’une série de coupes transversales," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 73(1), pages 233-263, mars-juin.

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    • D82 - Microeconomics - - Information, Knowledge, and Uncertainty - - - Asymmetric and Private Information; Mechanism Design

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