Using matched employee-employer data from the 1999 Workplace and Employee Survey, the contribution of the workplace to gender pay differentials is explored. The inclusion of workplace characteristics and more accurate industry measures tend to increase the "explained" component to around 60...

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...