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Baker, Michael; Drolet, Marie - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

gender differences in wages with gender differences in decisions of how much to work (i.e., hours). Our results reveal … only 0.72. We also find that as the gender wage ratio has risen, the remaining gap in wages is increasingly unexplained in … the sense that it cannot be accounted for by gender differences in characteristics that the labour market values. …

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Earnings Losses of Displaced Older Workers: Accounting for the Retirement Option

Schirle, Tammy - Vancouver School of Economics - 2009

In this paper I estimate the magnitude of earnings losses faced by workers who are displaced when over the age of 50. This is potentially complicated by the self-selection of older individuals out of the labour force and into activities such as retirement, preventing observation of their...

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Labour Market Matters - May 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

Between 1970 and 2005, the share of total earnings in the Canadian labour market going to middle-class workers has fallen significantly, while the earnings share of higher-earnings workers has risen. Is the middle-class being hollowed out? A paper by CLSRN affiliate Charles Beach (Queenâ€™s...

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Has the Canadian Labour Market Polarized?

Green, David A.; Sand, Benjamin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

We use Census and Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for the period from 1971 to 2012 to investigate whether the Canadian wage and employment structures have polarized, that is, whether wages and employment have grown more in high and low than in middle paying occupations. We find that there has...

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Estimating the Effects of Minimum Wage in a Developing Country: A Density Discontinuity Design Approach

Jales, Hugo - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

This paper proposes a new framework to empirically assess the effects of the minimum wage in a developing country. This approach allows us to jointly estimate the effects of the minimum wage on unemployment, average wages, sector mobility, wage inequality, the size of the informal sector and on...

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Changes in Wage Inequality in Canada: An Interprovincial Perspective

Fortin, Nicole M.; Lemieux, Thomas - Vancouver School of Economics - 2015

This paper uses the Canadian Labour Force Survey to understand why the level and dispersion of wages have evolved differently across provinces from 1997 to 2013. The starker interprovincial differences are the much faster increase in the level of wages and decline in wage dispersion in...

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Labour Market Matters - November 2014

Tran, Vivian - Vancouver School of Economics - 2014

While proponents argue that minimum wage laws are essential in improving social welfare and economic well-being, implementation of minimum wage laws can also be associated with increased unemployment and the movement of workers into the informal sector where worker protection and workplace...

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Assortative Marriage and the Effects of Government Homecare Subsidy Programs on Gender Wage and Participation Inequality

Bjerk, David; Han, Seungjin - Vancouver School of Economics - 2005

-ante identical populations. We then examine how different government homecare subsidy schemes may affect such gender inequality in … the labor market. We show that the effect of government homecare subsidy schemes on gender inequality depends crucially on …

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The Role of Education in Technology Use and Adoption: Evidence from the Canadian Workplace and Employee Survey

Riddell, W. Craig; Song, Xueda - Vancouver School of Economics - 2011

Adoption of innovations by firms and workers is an important part of the process of technological change. Many prior studies find that highly educated workers tend to adopt new technologies faster than those with less education. Such positive correlations between the level of education and the...

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Does Online Search Crowd Out Traditional Search and Improve Matching Efficiency? Evidence from Craigslist

Kroft, Kory; Pope, Devin G. - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012

Ever since the seminal work of Stigler (1962), economists have recognized that information in markets is costly to acquire and can lead to â€œsearch frictionsâ€. The remarkable growth in online search has substantially lowered the cost of information acquisition. Despite this, there is...

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