We decompose annual earnings into hours of work and hourly earnings and analyze male-female differences in earnings inequality using Canadian data. Our results indicate that the larger female inequality in earnings is due to a greater inequality in the ...

The paper employs data from the 1986-87 Labour Market Activity Survey to investigate empirically how the wage rates of female paid workers in Canada change when they change jobs, in particular whether Canadian women realize short-run wage gains from job mobility. Following Mincer (1986), we...