from various Statistics Canada surveys and focuses on the real (hourly or weekly) wages earned by full-time workers. It is … changed over the past three decades. Wages are expressed in 2010 dollars. Since the early 1980s, real wages of various groups … changes, growth in international trade, institutional factors (e.g., de-unionization, changes in minimum wages, and changes in …

This article explores the effects of living wages on low-wage workers and low-income families. First, earlier analyses … confirms earlier findings that business-assistance living wage laws boost wages of the lowest wage workers at the cost of some … that the poverty reductions generated by living wages may stem from income gains for individuals with higher wages or …