Canadian wage inequality over the last two decades

JB Burbidge, L Magee, AL Robb - Empirical Economics, 1997 - Springer
Empirical Economics, 1997Springer
We study the dispersion of wages of full-time full-year workers over two decades controlling
for both education and experience. Applying non-parametric statistical methods we find
statistically significant and large increases in inequality for males with low levels of
education and experience coexist with more modest changes in inequality for those with
average education and experience, and with actual declines in inequality for older, more
experienced workers with a university degree. These relative patterns tend to be similar for …
Abstract
We study the dispersion of wages of full-time full-year workers over two decades controlling for both education and experience. Applying non-parametric statistical methods we find statistically significant and large increases in inequality for males with low levels of education and experience coexist with more modest changes in inequality for those with average education and experience, and with actual declines in inequality for older, more experienced workers with a university degree. These relative patterns tend to be similar for females though with a stronger tendency towards inequality in each education-experience category. Given the recent focus in this debate on the issue of polarization, we also show graphs of the actual distributions of wages and analyze these to conclude that the groups experiencing increased dispersion do display what is commonly known as polarization though it would be an exaggeration to claim that the jobs in the middle of the distribution have vanished.
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