Assessing the impact of historical changes in social protection on poverty in Canada

Abstract

In this article, we analyse how various historical modifications to welfare and old age pensions programmes have affected poverty in Canada.

Notes

¹These effects are studied in the period of 1992 to 2002.

² There would most likely have been an impact if we would have considered the admissibility criteria. However, the SLID database does not contain enough information to conduct such simulations due to the incredible complex nature of the admissibility criteria.