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Unions and Wage Inequality: The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David; Lemieux, Thomas; Riddell, W. Craig - 2018
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011984524
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Canadian Inequality: Recent Development and Policy Options
Fortin, Nicole M.; Green, David A.; Lemieux, Thomas; … - Vancouver School of Economics - 2012
Considerable concern has recently been expressed about growing income inequality. Much of the discussion, though, has been in general terms and focused on the U.S. experience. To understand whether and how Canada ought to respond to this development, we need to be clear on the facts. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011184431
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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David - 2018
unionized employees in North America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies … examine both and reveal striking gender differences. A consistent - and puzzling - finding is that unions reduce wage …, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10% in both countries. However, union impacts on wage inequality are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906506
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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Riddell, W. Craig - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653497
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The Great Canadian Recovery: The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen R. G.; Lange, Fabian; Riddell, W. Craig; … - 2022
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351943
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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956011
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Unemployment, Marginal Attachment and Labor Force Participation in Canada and the United States
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville - 2017
We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S. Using two complementary decompositions, we show the importance for the comparative evolution of aggregate unemployment of changes in the fraction of the non-employed who are unemployed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956333
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The Great Canadian Recovery : The Impact of COVID-19 on Canada's Labour Market
Jones, Stephen Robert Glenville; Lange, Fabian; … - 2022
The Canadian labour market experienced a period of unprecedented turmoil following the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. We analyze the main changes using standard labour force statistics and new data on job postings. Envisaging a phase of temporary severing of employment relationships followed by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014081272
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Leisure time and the measurement of economic welfare
Riddell, W. Craig - 1983
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003528376
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Unions and Wage Inequality : The Roles of Gender, Skill and Public Sector Employment
Card, David - 2018
America are women. While early studies of unions and inequality focused on males, recent studies find that unions reduce wage … in the effects of unionization on wage inequality. At present, unions reduce economy-wide wage inequality by less than 10 … unions on male and female wage inequality no longer differ. The key differences in union impacts are between the public and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012907134