| dc.contributor.author | MacPhail, Fiona. | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-10-21T12:37:44Z | |
| dc.date.available | 1996 | |
| dc.date.issued | 1996 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.other | AAINN15884 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55126 | |
| dc.description | This thesis, comprised of three essays, focuses upon changes in individual employment earnings inequality in Canada during the 1980s. The empirical analysis uses data from the Survey of Work History (1981), the comparable Labour Market Activity Survey (1986 and 1989), and the Survey of Consumer Finances (1986 and 1989). | en_US |
| dc.description | The first essay addresses the question: "Do researchers' measurement choices influence our understanding of earnings inequality?" Changes in earnings inequality are assessed in terms of statistical significance and the magnitudes are compared to those observed in other countries and in the previous decade. A central issue examined is whether, for a given definition of the population (for example, all male workers or full-time/full-year female workers), the trends in earnings inequality are robust to measurement choices. Apart from practical implications, the results are used to make several observations about economic methodology. | en_US |
| dc.description | The second essay empirically examines the relationship between macroeconomic conditions and earnings inequality, within a specific model of labour market adjustment which is a novel feature of this essay. The model shows the conditions under which changes in firms labour strategies influence the degree of earnings inequality. Regression analysis is used to test the hypothesis that the inverse relationship between macroeconomic conditions and earnings inequality weakened in the late 1980s, as has been reported for the U.S.; and we conclude that the hypothesis can be rejected. | en_US |
| dc.description | In the third essay, the labour market model of essay two is extended to incorporate other dimensions of inequality which are the age and education premia and other determinants, namely. structural, institutional, and demographic factors. Macroeconomic and unionization variables are found to be consistent and significant determinants of the three inequality dimensions. Support also exists for other hypothesized relationships, such as the relationship between the relative supply of university-educated workers and education premium, and the relationship between technological change and earnings inequality. | en_US |
| dc.description | Thesis (Ph.D.)--Dalhousie University (Canada), 1996. | en_US |
| dc.language | eng | en_US |
| dc.publisher | Dalhousie University | en_US |
| dc.publisher | | en_US |
| dc.subject | Economics, Labor. | en_US |
| dc.title | Three essays on earnings inequality in Canada during the 1980s. | en_US |
| dc.type | text | en_US |
| dc.contributor.degree | Ph.D. | en_US |
