Understanding the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled workers: the role of implicit contracts

Green, David A.; Townsend, James

doi:10.1111/j.1540-5982.2009.01576.x

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“…There is a large body of literature suggesting that low‐skilled workers have fared poorly in the last 25 to 30 years (e.g., Frenette, Green, and Milligan 2007; Green and Townsend 2010). This extensive literature has tended to focus on wages (or income) as the outcome of interest.…”

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Is job insecurity on the rise? Evidence from Canadian perception data

Brochu

Zhang

2009

Canadian J of Economics

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This paper examines the unexplored issue of worker insecurity perception in Canada. Specifically, we explore for changes in worker perceptions of job security using Canadian Gallup data for the 1977-2006 period. We find that the high levels of perceived insecurity of the early to mid-1990s were only cyclical in nature, not evidence of structural change. We also explore for differences across socio-economic groups and find that university educated workers, full-time workers, and white-collar workers all felt relatively more secure about present and future job prospects. Interestingly, union members tend to be more concerned about job security (than non-union). JEL classification: J62, J63Est-ce que la précarité de l'emploi est en hausse? Résultatsà partir des données canadiennes sur les perceptions. Ce mémoire examine le problème inexploré de la perception de la précarité de l'emploi au Canada. Spécifiquement, on explore les changements dans les perceptions de précarité d'emploi des travailleursà l'aide de données Gallup pour la période 1977-2006. Il appert que les hauts niveaux de précarité perçue du début au milieu des années 90étaient de nature cyclique, et non pas le résultat d'un changement structurel. On examine aussi les différences entre groupes socio-économiques, et on découvre que les travailleurs avec une formation universitaire, les travailleursà temps plein, et les collets blancs se sentaient relativement plus en sécurité quant aux perspectives d'emploi présentes et futures. Il est intéressant de noter que les travailleurs syndiqués sont davantage inquiets quantà la précarité de l'emploi que les non-syndiqués.

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Is job insecurity on the rise? Evidence from Canadian perception data

Brochu

Zhang

2009

Canadian J of Economics

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“… Green and Townsend () show that when wages for high school or less‐educated men are organized by job cohort (defined by when they started their job), the starting wages for cohorts entering jobs in the early 1980s are on the order of 20% above those for cohorts entering in the 1990s or later. Moreover, the real wages of the older cohorts are maintained even while those of the new cohorts are declining.…”

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“…Green and Townsend (2010) show that when wages for high school or less-educated men are organized by job cohort (defined by when they started their job), the starting wages for cohorts entering jobs in the early 1980s are on the order of 20% above those for cohorts entering in the…”

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Has the Canadian labour market polarized?

Green

Sand

2015

Canadian J of Economics

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We use Census and Labour Force Survey (LFS) data for the period from 1971 to 2012 to investigate whether the Canadian wage and employment structures have polarized, that is, whether wages and employment have grown more in high‐ and low‐ than in middle‐paying occupations. We find that there has been faster growth in employment in both high‐ and low‐paying occupations than those in the middle since 1981. However, up to 2005, the wage pattern reflects a simple increase in inequality with greater growth in high‐paid than middle‐paid occupations and greater growth in middle than low‐paid occupations. Since 2005, there has been some polarization but this is present only in some parts of the country and seems to be related more to the resource boom than technological change. We present results for the US to provide a benchmark. The Canadian patterns fit with those in the US and other countries apart from the 1990s when the US undergoes wage polarization not seen elsewhere. We argue that the Canadian data do not fit with the standard technological change model of polarization developed for the US.

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“…24 Williams (2005) suggested that the net return to 10 years of tenure to be 1 1 percent. Green and Townsend (2010) studied the wage-tenure profiles for unskilled workers and found that workers with higher job tenure are less impacted by economic variations. McDonald and Worswick (1998) introduced tenure variables and the interaction ofjob tenure with immigrants' cohorts to allow for the job tenure effect in immigrant wage studies.…”

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“…The most recent research by Green and Townsend (2010) focuses on Canadian male workers with high school education or less. Evidence is presented of a long downward trend in the real wages of less-skilled workers.…”

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Implicit contracts and immigrant wages in Canada

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Understanding the wage patterns of Canadian less skilled workers: the role of implicit contracts

Cited by 15 publications

References 17 publications

Is job insecurity on the rise? Evidence from Canadian perception data

Is job insecurity on the rise? Evidence from Canadian perception data

Has the Canadian labour market polarized?

Implicit contracts and immigrant wages in Canada

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