This paper argues that changes in the returns to occupational tasks have contributed to changes in the wage distribution over the last three decades. Using Current Population Survey (CPS) data, we first show that the 1990s polarization of wages is explained by changes in wage setting between and...

We provide the first solid evidence that Chinese superstitious beliefs can have significant effects on house prices in a North American market with a large immigrant population. Using real estate data on close to 117,000 house sales, we find that houses with address number ending in four are...

This paper explores the consequences of the under-representation of women in top jobs for the overall gender pay gap. Using administrative annual earnings data from Canada, Sweden, and the United Kingdom, it applies the approach used in the analysis of earnings inequality in top incomes, as well...

Using the PISA surveys (2000-2012), this paper explores the relationship between math test scores and everyday computer gaming by gender and for high income and middle income countries. We use two identification strategies in the spirit of an ideal experiment that would reduce computer gaming...

Les auteurs de plusieurs etudes recentes ont constate que l'inegalite des revenus s'etait considerablement accrue au Canada depuis la fin des annees 1970. En utilisant une base de donnees exceptionnelle constituee a partir des dossiers fiscaux longitudinaux, nous avons decompose la croissance de...

La correlation entre le taux de feminite des professions et les salaires constitue le fondement de la legislation en matiere d'equite salariale et de valeur comparable. Diverses etudes anterieures ont analyse cette correlation a partir de donnees americaines et ont cerne certains des facteurs...

Nous presentons un cadre d'analyse dynamique du chomage et l'appliquons a des donnees canadiennes et americaines. L'analyse est axee sur la distinction entre lefait d'etre au chomage et le fait de commencer une periode de chomage, c'est-a-dire entre l'effectif des chomeurs et l'afflux de...