Another Look at the Francophone Wage Gap in Canada:Public vs Private Sector, Quebec vs Outside Quebec

Serge Nadeau

No 0912E, Working Papers from University of Ottawa, Department of Economics

Abstract: Using a variant of the Blinder-Oaxaca decomposition method, I find no evidence that, outside Quebec, there was at any point in time between 1970 and 2000, a labour market advantage for Anglophones that cannot be explained by a higher relative demand for English skills, whether in the public sector or the private sector. However, I find that in Quebec’s public sector, between 1970 and 2000, Francophones enjoyed a wage premium that may have gone beyond language skill considerations and that I cannot explain. Such a premium also appears to have been present in Quebec’s private sector in 2000.

Keywords: Francophone-Anglophone wage differential; return to language skills; discrimination (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: J20 J70 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 42 pages
Date: 2009
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