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Blanchflower, David G. - 2015

exerts significant downward pressure on nominal wages. Finally, we consider the monetary policy implications of the …

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The Short- and Long-Term Career Effects of Graduating in a Recession : Hysteresis and Heterogeneity in the Market for College Graduates

Oreopoulos, Philip - 2006

The standard neo-classical model of wage setting predicts short-term effects of temporary labor market shocks on careers and low costs of recessions for both more and less advantaged workers. In contrast, a vast range of alternative career models based on frictions in the labor market suggests...

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What is Driving US and Canadian Wages : Exogenous Technical Change or Endogenous Choice of Technique?

Beaudry, Paul - 1998

This paper proposes a new and unified explanation for the following trends observed over the last 25 years: (1) the increased returns to education, (2) the slow measured growth in TFP in an economy undergoing massive changes in its methods of production, and (3) the poor wage performance,...

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Cohort Patterns in Canadian Earnings : Assessing the Role of Skill Premia in Inequality Trends

Beaudry, Paul - 1997

earnings in Canada. When looking at the pattern for women, we find only minor differences in the age-earning relationships …

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The Effect of Collective Bargaining Legislation on Strikes and Wages

Cramton, Peter C. - 1995

Using Canadian data on large, private-sector contract negotiations from January 1967 to March 1993, we find that wages … workers during strikes is associated with significantly higher wages, and more frequent and longer strikes. This is consistent …

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An Analysis of the Earnings of Canadian Immigrants

Bloom, David E. - 1989

assimilation effect that suggests that immigrants make up for relatively low entry wages, although the wage catch-up is not … complete until 13 to 22 years after entry into Canada. These results are revealed clearly in both the pseudo-longitudinal and … skills declined following changes in Canada's immigration policies in 1974 that led to a sharp increase in the proportion of …

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Pay Transparency and the Gender Gap

Baker, Michael - 2019

We examine the impact of public sector salary disclosure laws on university faculty salaries in Canada. The laws, which … provinces at different times. Using detailed administrative data covering the majority of faculty in Canada, and an event …

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Why Do Union Jobs Pay More? New Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data

Beauregard, Pierre-Loup; Lemieux, Thomas; Messacar, Derek; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

We use Canadian matched employer-employee data to assess the sources of the union pay premium. After controlling for worker heterogeneity using the Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis (1999) (AKM) two-way fixed effects approach, we find that unionized firms pay about 15 log points more than...

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Do Tenured and Tenure-Track Faculty Matter?

Ehrenberg, Ronald G. - 2004

During the last two decades, there has been a significant growth in the share of faculty members at American colleges and universities that are employed in part-time or in full-time non tenure-track positions. Our study is the first to address whether the increased usage of such faculty...

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Changing Faculty Employment at Four-Year Colleges and Universities in the United States

Zhang, Liang - 2015

We use panel data models to examine variations and changes over time in faculty employment at four-year colleges and universities in the United States. The share of part-time faculty among total faculty has continued to grow over the last two decades, while the share of full-time lecturers and...

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