Understanding developments in individuals' earnings dispersion in Canada using matched employer-employee data / by Kar-Fai Gee, Huju Liu and Carlos Rosell. : CS11-0019/444E-PDF

"This paper presents developments in the dispersion of individuals’ earnings in Canada and examines the potential of firm characteristics to account for this dispersion and changes in this dispersion. This paper uses the Canadian Employer–Employee Dynamics Database from 2001 to 2013 and shows that the overall earnings dispersion declined slightly over this time period, as the increasing dispersion in the top half of the distribution was offset by convergence in the bottom half. The increasing dispersion in the top half of the distribution is mostly attributable to the earnings of individuals in firms with 500 or more employees, while the decreasing dispersion in the bottom half occurred for workers in firms of all sizes. Evidence suggests that the rise in the minimum wage played a role in the decline in dispersion. Lastly, while both changes in earnings between industries and changes in the dispersion of productivity have an impact on the dispersion of individuals’ earnings, it has been found that the earnings dispersion within firms accounts for most of the dispersion in any given year and for all of the change across time"--Abstract.

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Ministère/Organisme Statistics Canada. Analytical Studies Branch.
Titre Understanding developments in individuals' earnings dispersion in Canada using matched employer-employee data / by Kar-Fai Gee, Huju Liu and Carlos Rosell.
Titre de la série Analytical Studies Branch research paper series, 1205-9153 ; no. 444
Type de publication Série - Voir l'enregistrement principal
Langue [Anglais]
Autres langues publiées [Français]
Format Électronique
Document électronique
Note(s) "2020007."
"11F0019M No. 444."
"Release date: February 20, 2020."
Issued also in HTML format.
Issued also in French under title: Comprendre l'évolution de la dispersion des revenus des travailleurs au Canada à l'aide des données appariées sur les employeurs et les employés.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 31-32).
Information sur la publication [Ottawa] : Statistics Canada = Statistique Canada, 2020.
©2020
Auteur / Contributeur Gee, Kar-Fai, author.
Description 1 online resource (32 pages) : charts.
ISBN 9780660341804
Numéro de catalogue
  • CS11-0019/444E-PDF
Numéro de catalogue du ministère 11F0019M
Descripteurs Wages and labor productivity -- Canada -- Statistics.
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