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The Wage Gap between Francophones and Anglophones : A Canadian Perspective, 1970 to 2000
Albouy, David - 2008
The wage differential between Francophone and Anglophone men from 1970 to 2000 fell by 25 percentage points within Quebec, but only by 10 points Canada-wide, largely because the wages of Quebec Anglophones fell by 15 points relative to other Canadian Anglophones. Accordingly, the Canadian...
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Racial Disparities in Job Finding and Offered Wages
Fryer, Roland G, Jr - 2011
The extent to which discrimination can explain racial wage gaps is one of the most divisive subjects in the social sciences. Using a newly available dataset, this paper develops a simple empirical test which, under plausible conditions, provides a lower bound on the extent of discrimination in...
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Explaining Women's Success : Technological Change and the Skill Content of Women's Work
Black, Sandra E. - 2007
The closing of the gender wage gap is an ongoing phenomenon in industrialized countries. However, research has been … limited in its ability to understand the causes of these changes, due in part to an inability to directly compare the work of … women to that of men. In this study, we use a new approach for analyzing changes in the gender pay gap that uses direct …
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