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Messacar, Derek – Statistics Canada, 2017
This paper assesses the extent to which education affects how Canadians save and accumulate wealth for retirement. The paper makes three contributions. First, a descriptive analysis is presented of differences in savings and home values across individuals based on their levels of educational attainment. To this end, new datasets that link survey…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Outcomes of Education, Retirement, Retirement Benefits
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Thayer, Yvonne; Carliner, Saul; Driscoll, Margaret – COABE Journal: The Resource for Adult Education, 2021
In 2017, the authors began research for a book that would suggest training needs for the U.S. and Canadian workforce in the coming decades. Early in the research process they realized there was much more to understand in an evolving workplace than the call for reskilling workers. Workers would face many decisions influencing their careers while…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Search Methods, Job Skills, Automation
University of Western Ontario, London. – 1989
Retirement benefits offered by Ontario's 17 universities to instructional and non-instructional staff are reported. Pension plans are summarized, and each institution's policy and practices are also presented separately. Information about plans includes type of plan, eligibility, member and university contributions, and benefits and standard…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Death, Early Retirement, Eligibility
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1984
The Minister of Education of Alberta, Canada established a task force in 1983 to analyze the characteristics of teachers' pension plans and to develop a model retirement plan for teachers in Alberta. The task force reviewed the legislative, structural, administrative, and financial characteristics of Alberta's existing Teachers' Retirement Fund as…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Models, Money Management
Alberta Dept. of Education, Edmonton. – 1984
The Minister of Education of Alberta, Canada established a task force in 1983 to analyze the characteristics of teachers' pension plans and to develop a model retirement plan for teachers in Alberta. The task force reviewed the legislative, structural, administrative, and financial characteristics of Alberta's existing Teachers' Retirement Fund as…
Descriptors: Financial Support, Foreign Countries, Models, Money Management
University of Western Ontario, London. – 1980
Information on pension plans in 16 Ontario universities is presented in terms of the type of plan, eligibility, member contributions, university contributions, and benefits. There are eight defined benefit plans: seven money purchase plans with minimum guarantees, and one money purchase plan with no guarantees. Almost all of the plans are eligible…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Compensation (Remuneration), Eligibility, Financial Policy
Smyth, E. Sharron; Holder, Mary – 1981
This paper describes a retirement planning program designed by four educational institutions in Calgary, Alberta and presents the program workshops that offered participants the basics of finance, health, and lifestyle, along with living arrangements, relationship changes, the aging process, community resources, and consumer affairs. Teaching…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Attitude Change, Coping, Foreign Countries
Folk, Karen F., Ed. – 1995
This proceedings contains the texts of 5 invited papers and 28 refereed papers. The following are among the papers included: "Consumer Interest in the 1990's and Beyond" (Turner); "Esther Peterson and the Consumer Movement" (Galbraith); "The Public's Right to Government Information" (English); "Partnerships in…
Descriptors: Access to Information, Adult Education, Advertising, Consumer Economics