Les auteurs de plusieurs etudes recentes ont constate que l'inegalite des revenus s'etait considerablement accrue au Canada depuis la fin des annees 1970. En utilisant une base de donnees exceptionnelle constituee a partir des dossiers fiscaux longitudinaux, nous avons decompose la croissance de...

Several recent studies have found that earnings inequality in Canada has grown considerably since the late 1970's. Using an extraordinary data base drawn from longitudinal income tax records, we decompose this growth in earnings inequality into its persistent and transitory components. We find...

In an important and provocative paper, `Does Compulsory School Attendance Affect Schooling and Earnings?', Angrist and Krueger use quarter of birth as an instrument for educational attainment in wage equations. To support a causal interpretation of their estimates, they argue that compulsory...