Low-paid work and economically vulnerable families over the last two decades
By: by René Morissette and Garnett Picot.
Contributors: Picot, Garnett.; Statistics Canada. Business and Labour Market Analysis Division.
Series: Research paper; Analytical Studies Branch research paper series -- no. 248; Research paper (Statistics Canada); Research paper series (Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch) -- no. 248.
Publisher: Statistics Canada
Place of publication: Ottawa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 39
Other titles: Low paid work and economically vulnerable families over the last two decades
Notes: (From Statistics Canada website):  SUBJECTS: Labour, Personal finance and household finance, Business enterprises.  --  CATEGORIES: Salaries and wages, Income, Business conditions. --  KEYWORDS: analytical products, competitiveness, dual earner families, economic conditions, economic growth, educational attainment, employment, family structure, female lone parent families, hiring rates, hourly earnings, human capital, immigrants, international trade, job match, jobs, labour force characteristics, labour productivity, lay offs, lone parent families, low income, low income families, low wage jobs, median income, outsourcing, paid work, part time employment, pension plan coverage, poverty, separation rates, unattached individuals, unionized workers.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 37-39).

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Table of contents: value: The context: Wages, 1981-2004.; value: Low-paid work and precarious employment over the last two decades.; value: Incidence of low-paid work, 1981-2004.; value: Characteristics of low-paid jobs, 1981-2004.; value: Risk of job loss among low-paid workers.; value: Temporary employment.; value: Workers escaping low earnings.; value: Summary.; value: Low-paid workers living in low income.; value: Two increasingly vulnerable groups: recent immigrants and the less educated.; value: Conclusion.