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incidence of advanced technology adoption and matched panel data on plant characteristics such as wages, capital intensity …, andsize to examine the connection between technology use and the wage rates received by workers. Since higher wages are … associated with higher skill levels,establishing a connection between technology use and wages reinforces the earlier findings. …
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Developments in the relative wages of more and less educated workers during the early 1990s are examined using the … greater growth in the supply of more educated workers, the gap between the wages of more and less educated workers would have … increased. After controlling for some of the most likely influences on real wages it is found that international trade has a …
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This paper examines income instability of lone parents, singles and two-parent families in Canada in the past two decades using tax data. We attempt to answer the following questions: Has there been a widespread increase in earnings instability among lone parents (especially lone mothers) and...
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The correlation of occupational gender composition and wages is the basis of pay equity/comparable worth legislation. A … number of previous studies have examined this correlation in US data, identifying some of the determinants of low wages in … segregation in Canada and its consequences for wages. We also draw explicit comparisons of our findings to evidence for the United …
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This study explores the labour market performance of low and high educated couples using Census data for the period 1980 to 2000.
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paper attempts to determine whether decisions regarding the timing of family formation influence the wages of women and … sectional analysis suggests that there is no association between marital status and wages while the evidence on the relationship … between wages and motherhood is mixed. When controls for years with children were included, there is a positive association …
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Many studies have examined the relative success of immigrant men in the (primarily paid) workforce. Despite the fact that they represent approximately one-sixth of the immigrant workforce, self-employed immigrants are a relatively understudied group. This study uses the 1981, 1986, 1991, and...
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The 1980s and 1990s have seen a rising share of skilled labour in total employment in the manufacturing sector of Canada. At the same time, the wage premium for skilled workers has increased, thereby increasing the inequality between skilled and unskilled workers. There is a disagreement about...
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The study examines the reason for the significant increase in the 'age premium' over the period 1981-94. The age premium refers to the percentage difference in hourly earnings between 'younger' (25-34) and 'older' (45-54) workers. In 1994, the hourly rate of older males was 32.4% higher than...
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This paper i) documents the extent and cyclicality of self-employment entry and exit flows; ii) explores transitions to and from self-employment; and iii) investigates the influence of individual characteristics and labour market experience as well as macroeconomic conditions on the probability...
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