The contributors to this comprehensive book compile and analyse the latest data available on household wealth using, as case studies, the United States, Canada, Germany, Italy, Sweden, and Finland during the 1990s and into the twenty-first century. The authors show that in the US, trends are...

Data from the 1997 Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics are used to investigate the extent to which factors not previously explored in the Canadian context account for wage differences between men and women. Women's average hourly wage rate is about 82 percent - 89.5 percent of the men's average...

We construct a new time series on the Canadian female/male pay ratio. The new series is based on wage data rather than the earnings data that have been used in the past. Wages more closely correspond to the price of labour, while earnings combine information on the price of labour with...

In this paper, we assemble data from several household surveys to document how pension coverage of young and prime-aged workers has evolved in Canada between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s. We show that between 1986 and 1997 pension coverage has fallen significantly for men, has dropped...

Even after controlling for observable workers' characteristics and for occupation and industry-specific effects, a substantial wage differential remains between large and small firms. What underlies the remaining wage differential is unclear. Direct evidence on pension plan coverage and on...