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1. Wealth inequality in Canada—why worry?

   Between 80 per cent and 87 per cent of Canadian wealth inequality is due to the life-cycle effect. ...

2. Towards a Better Understanding of Income Inequality in Canada

   In recent years, income inequality has become one of the most animating—and unfortunately most misunderstood—economic and social issues of our time. Sparked by the 2008-09 recession, the well-deserved backlash against corporate bailouts, the Occupy Wall ...

3. Age explains most wealth inequality in Canada

   Appeared in 24 Hours Vancouver, April 25, 2017 The fact that the top 20 per cent of households in Canada hold 67 per cent of the personal wealth and the bottom 20 per cent hold no wealth at all seems, on the surface, to be a very inequitable and unfair ...

4. Understanding Wealth Inequality in Canada

   This paper addresses two questions. First, is wealth inequality in Canada increasing? Second, what is driving the wealth inequality that we observe? The empirical evidence presented in this study strongly suggests that, at least in recent decades, wealth ...

5. Davos: Our continuing obsession with inequality

   The world's intellectual elite are meeting this week in Davos to, apparently, solve our economic ills. None too soon. We have a mountain of economic problems to challenge the brightest minds on the planet. But I’m a little bothered ...