Growing Household Indebtedness and the Plummeting Saving Rate in Canada: An Explanatory Note

Mario Seccareccia ()

The Economic and Labour Relations Review, 2005, vol. 16, issue 1, 133-151

Abstract: Much as it has occurred in the United States, over the last two decades the household saving rate in Canada has fallen sharply to unprecedented levels, as it now hovers essentially about the zero rate. Accompanying this fall, we have witnessed a parallel rise in household debt ratios — a phenomenon that some have dubbed a state of “affluenza†. The object of this article is to provide an explanation of this phenomenon by pointing especially to the role played by fiscal policy in shifting the burden of debt from the government to the household sector. Moreover, the article raises serious concern about the sustainability of this particular growth process.

Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/103530460501600108

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