Derek Messacar
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 5605313 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Derek Messacar |
| PRENOMES | Derek |
| SOBRENOME | Messacar |
| ASSINATURA | MESSACAR D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | , |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 7 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 1 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 7 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2014 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2023 |
| ÍNDICE H | 1 |
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply
We investigate how reforms of Canada’s child allowances affected household poverty and maternal employment—the 2015 increase and expansion of the Universal Child Care Benefit and the 2016 introduction of a new Canada Child Benefit (CCB). We document that both reforms reduced child poverty, although the CCB had greater effect. By 2018, we estimate that the CCB reduced poverty by 11% in families headed by a single mother and by nearly 17% in two-pa…
Inter-Jurisdictional Retirement in Canada
I provide the first look at inter-jurisdictional retirement in Canada, which refers to working in one jurisdiction but moving to another at retirement. Using administrative data from 1982 to 2018, I find that the likelihood of moving jurisdictions doubles at retirement, using an event-study design. This effect is driven by younger and higher-income tax filers who likely moved during their working years for high-paying jobs and could afford to ret…
Predicted Earnings Losses from Graduating during Covid-19
Poor labour market conditions at the start of a worker's career can result in earnings losses for many years. The 2021 cohort of Canadian high school and post-secondary students have seen employment prospects diminish amid economic lockdowns to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The goal of this article is to predict earnings losses for this cohort. We use Census of Population data to show that a 1 percent increase in unem…
Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Savings Plans
In this article, we provide new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace savings plan offered by employers affects voluntary job separations by employees. In particular, we compare traditional registered pension plans (RPPs)—commonly DB plans with lock-in provisions and benefit schedules that are back-loaded in job tenure—and flexible group registered retirement savings plans (group RRSPs)—low-cost, portable…
Crowd-Out, Education, and Employer Contributions to Workplace Pensions
This study assesses whether workplace pensions help individuals overcome knowledge barriers to saving for retirement. Using administrative data from Canada and exploiting unique features of the pension system, I find compelling evidence that each $1 contributed to workplace pensions partially crowds out other retirement saving by approximately $0.50—among interior savers—in a regression kink design, centering on unionized workers for methodologic…
Big Tax Data and Economic Analysis
Amid an increasing reliance on administrative tax data for economic analysis, the extent to which such data are confounded by income tax reassessments and delayed tax filing requires examination. This article provides novel insight into this issue using population records of initial and delayed Canadian tax filers for 1990–2010. The results show that 3.5 percent to 4.8 percent of tax filers delay filing their returns each year. However, the conse…
Persistent Unemployment and the Generosity of Welfare States
Generous unemployment benefits are a conventional explanation of the high rates of unemployment in many OECD countries. However, this perception has been challenged on the basis that cross-national evidence comes only from regression analyses of unemployment on the OECD's gross replacement rate but that results are not robust to improved, multidimensional measures of generosity. In this article, I conduct a detailed empirical analysis of how soci…
Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Savings Plans
In this article, we provide new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace savings plan offered by employers affects voluntary job separations by employees. In particular, we compare traditional registered pension plans (RPPs)—commonly DB plans with lock-in provisions and benefit schedules that are back-loaded in job tenure—and flexible group registered retirement savings plans (group RRSPs)—low-cost, portable…
Persistent Unemployment and the Generosity of Welfare States
Generous unemployment benefits are a conventional explanation of the high rates of unemployment in many OECD countries. However, this perception has been challenged on the basis that cross-national evidence comes only from regression analyses of unemployment on the OECD's gross replacement rate but that results are not robust to improved, multidimensional measures of generosity. In this article, I conduct a detailed empirical analysis of how soci…
Big Tax Data and Economic Analysis
Amid an increasing reliance on administrative tax data for economic analysis, the extent to which such data are confounded by income tax reassessments and delayed tax filing requires examination. This article provides novel insight into this issue using population records of initial and delayed Canadian tax filers for 1990–2010. The results show that 3.5 percent to 4.8 percent of tax filers delay filing their returns each year. However, the conse…
Crowd-Out, Education, and Employer Contributions to Workplace Pensions
This study assesses whether workplace pensions help individuals overcome knowledge barriers to saving for retirement. Using administrative data from Canada and exploiting unique features of the pension system, I find compelling evidence that each $1 contributed to workplace pensions partially crowds out other retirement saving by approximately $0.50—among interior savers—in a regression kink design, centering on unionized workers for methodologic…
Voluntary Job Separations and Traditional versus Flexible Workplace Savings Plans
In this article, we provide new insights into the longstanding empirical issue of whether the type of workplace savings plan offered by employers affects voluntary job separations by employees. In particular, we compare traditional registered pension plans (RPPs)—commonly DB plans with lock-in provisions and benefit schedules that are back-loaded in job tenure—and flexible group registered retirement savings plans (group RRSPs)—low-cost, portable…
Predicted Earnings Losses from Graduating during Covid-19
Poor labour market conditions at the start of a worker's career can result in earnings losses for many years. The 2021 cohort of Canadian high school and post-secondary students have seen employment prospects diminish amid economic lockdowns to contain the spread of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19). The goal of this article is to predict earnings losses for this cohort. We use Census of Population data to show that a 1 percent increase in unem…
Inter-Jurisdictional Retirement in Canada
I provide the first look at inter-jurisdictional retirement in Canada, which refers to working in one jurisdiction but moving to another at retirement. Using administrative data from 1982 to 2018, I find that the likelihood of moving jurisdictions doubles at retirement, using an event-study design. This effect is driven by younger and higher-income tax filers who likely moved during their working years for high-paying jobs and could afford to ret…
Effects of Child Tax Benefits on Poverty and Labor Supply
We investigate how reforms of Canada’s child allowances affected household poverty and maternal employment—the 2015 increase and expansion of the Universal Child Care Benefit and the 2016 introduction of a new Canada Child Benefit (CCB). We document that both reforms reduced child poverty, although the CCB had greater effect. By 2018, we estimate that the CCB reduced poverty by 11% in families headed by a single mother and by nearly 17% in two-pa…
Economics (7 obras) · Labour economics (5 obras) · Business (4 obras) · Demographic economics (4 obras) · Financial Literacy, Pension, Retirement Analysis (3 obras) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (3 obras) · Political science (3 obras) · Public economics (3 obras) · Retirement, Disability, and Employment (3 obras) · Actuarial science (2 obras)