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Canadian dollar coins are pictured in a file photo. (The Canadian Press/Jonathan Hayward) The vast majority of minimum-wage earners in Canada don’t live in low-income households, and most are teens or young adults living with family, a new study by the Fraser Institute finds, raising questions about the effectiveness of higher wage floors in reducing poverty.
The study , “Who Earns the Minimum Wage in Canada,” found that 92.3 percent of the country’s minimum-wage earners live in households that are above Statistics Canada’s low-income cutoff line. More than half (53 percent) are aged between 15 and 24 in 2019, the latest year of available data, and among this group, 84.1 percent live with their parents or other relatives.
“Raising the minimum wage is often presented as a strategy for helping the working poor, but these data raise questions about its efficacy in achieving this goal simply because most minimum-wage earners aren’t living in low-income families,” said study co-author Ben Eisen, a senior fellow at the Fraser Institute, in an Oct. 28 press release .
Most of these minimum-wage earners are in fact secondary or tertiary earners rather than primary breadwinners in their households, the study explained.
The authors noticed that between 2009 and 2019, all provinces showed a “strong” trend of increasing their minimum wages. Among them, B.C., Alberta, Ontario, Quebec, and Prince Edward Island raised their minimum wages by more than 20 percent. Alberta implemented the largest increase in both dollar and percentage terms, at $4.75 and 46.4 percent respectively, followed by B.C. at $3.99 and 42.6 percent.
But only 7.7 percent of minimum-wage earners actually live in low-income households, a relatively small percentage compared to those who don’t, the study found.
Of the eight provinces for which adequate Statistics Canada data was available for 2018, Alberta had the lowest share of minimum-wage earners living in low-income households, at 6.6 percent, while Prince Edward Island had the largest share, at 18.2 percent, the authors wrote. The large provinces of Ontario, Quebec, and B.C. were at 7.2 percent, 9.4 percent, and 7.9 percent respectively.
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