This chapter analyzes the international evidence on the relationship between educational
wage premia and the distribution of personal labor earnings. The aim is to review what is …

In this paper we document the pattern of change in age‐earnings profiles across cohorts
and evaluate its implications. Using synthetic cohorts from the survey of Consumer Finances …

In this paper, we document some features of the distribution of income, consumption and
wealth in Canada using survey data from many different sources. We find that wage and …

In the United States the education premium-the ratio of the earnings of university graduates
to the earnings of high school graduates-has risen sharply in the last 20 years. Some …

The subject of this Ruggles Lecture is the distribution of earnings among individuals. It is
concerned with how much different people earn, and how earnings differences have …

What have been the trends in the distribution of income in advanced capi countries over the
last thirty years? The literature on economic inequality and age living standards has …

While broad consensus exists that earnings inequality increased in Canada during the
1980s, as in other industrialised countries, there is little agreement about the causes. The …

The paper contributes to fhe debate on the causes of increased income inequality in
Canada by examining the relationship between unemployment and pre-tax market income …

INTRODUCTION n the 1990s, Canada's labour market was charac-terized by a number of
major changes in relation to the previous decade. A greater integration of the Canadian and …

Many researchers assert that in the last 20 years, the American and Canadian labour
markets have experienced a similar skill-biased demand shock (OECD 1994; Card, Kramarz …