… Differential wage growth influences the likelihood of different groups of individuals
entering into or moving out of low income and has an effect on their capacity to handle
unexpected expenditures. Furthermore, changes in group-specific wages inform
discussions of the extent to which different groups of workers have shared in productivity
and gross domestic product (GDP) growth in Canada over the last three decades. In
Canada and many other industrialized countries, the hourly wages of various groups of …

… This study examines how real wages of Canadian workers evolved from 1981 to 2011
across five dimensions: gender, age, education, industry, and occupation. Keywords:
Education; training and learning; Industries; Labour; Occupations; Outcomes of education;
Wages; salaries and other earnings (search for similar items in EconPapers) … More
papers in Analytical Studies Branch Research Paper Series from Statistics Canada,
Analytical Studies Branch Contact information at EDIRC. …