Category Immigration
Should recent immigrants be eligible for Old Age Security?
Most Canadian seniors are guaranteed an income above the poverty line by Old Age Security, Guaranteed Income Supplement and the Canada Pension Plan. Seniors are less likely to be poor than children or adults under 65 – with one exception. Mike Veall has found that 71 percent of recent immigrants aged 66 and older have […]
SpongeBob SquarePants and the Economics of Identity
SpongeBob SquarePants lives in a pineapple under the sea, makes the best burgers in Bikini Bottom, and loves life. Akerlof and Kranton's Economics of Identity explains why SpongeBob is so happy. An identity is a sense of self, "this is who I am". Every one of us has many identities – our gender, nationality, religion, […]
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