This paper offers a general evaluative review of the report of the Expert Panel on Older Workers of July 2008. It is a balanced, clearly written report that emphasizes the importance of individual choice, flexible work arrangements, reduced barriers to employment of older workers, and regional...

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...

This paper examines the variability of workers' earnings in Canada over the period 1982-2006. We decompose the total variance of workers' earnings into a 'permanent' component between workers and a 'transitory' earnings instability component over time for given workers. We then investigate the...

This study uses longitudinal IMDB micro data to document the annual earnings outcomes of Canadian immigrants in four major admission categories (skill-assessed independent economic principal applicants, accompanying economic immigrants, family class immigrants, and refugees) and three annual...

This paper examines how middle-class earnings in Canada have changed between 1970 and 2005 using Census microdata. Middle-class earnings are defined as workers’ earnings between 50 and 150 percent of the median or as earnings between the 20th and 80th percentile earnings. The analysis...

This Study examines the earnings mobility of Canadian immigrants using the large IMDB microdata file. We examine earnings transition matrices of immigrants over ten years after landing in Canada for three landing cohorts – 1982, 1988, and 1994. Immigrants also arrive under four separate...

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 ...