TY  - RPRT
        AU  - Duclos, Jean-Yves
AU  - Pellerin, Mathieu
        TI  - The Evolution of Hourly Compensation in Canada between 1980 and 2010
        PY  - 2015/Mar/
        PB  - Institute of Labor Economics (IZA)
        CY  - Bonn
        T2  - IZA Discussion Paper
        IS  - 8917
        UR  - https://www.iza.org/publications/dp8917
        AB  - We consider changes in the distribution of hourly compensation in Canada using confidential census data and the recent National Household Survey over the last three decades. We find that the coefficient of variation of wages among full-time workers has almost doubled between 1980 and 2010. The rapid growth of the 99.9th percentile is the main driver of that increase. Changes in the composition of the workforce explain less than 25% of the rise in wage inequality. However, composition changes explain most of the increase in average hourly compensation over those three decades, while wages stagnate within skill groups.
        KW  - Canada
KW  - inequality
KW  - wage distribution
KW  - composition effects
        ER  -