 The Gender Wage Gap in the Canadian Provinces, 1997-2014LCERPA Working Papers from Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis Abstract: This study examines the gender gaps in average hourly wages facing private sector full time employees in the Canadian provinces, using data from the Canadian Labour Force Survey. Over the 1997-2014 period, all provinces have made progress toward narrowing the gender wage gap, though notably little progress was made in Newfoundland and Alberta. Much of the variation across provinces in the gender gap is eliminated once we account for gender differences in individual and job characteristics in each province. Decomposition results suggest a large portion of the wage gap in each province is explained by gender differences in industry and occupation. The unexplained portion of the wage gap has been reduced in many provinces as gender differences in industry and occupation play an increasingly important role. Keywords: Gender; wage differential; discrimination; labour (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:wlu:lcerpa:0088 Access Statistics for this paper More papers in LCERPA Working Papers from Laurier Centre for Economic Research and Policy Analysis Contact information at EDIRC. |
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