1. Overview

Andrew Heisz,, Andrew Jackson, and Garnett Picot. 2001. “Distributional outcomes in Canada in the 1990s.” Pp. 247–272 in The Longest Decade: Canada in the 1990s, edited by K. Banting, A. Sharpe, and F. St-Hilaire. Montreal: Institute for Research on Public Policy.

Peter Kuhn “Labor Market Polarization: Canada in International Perspective”, The Bell Canada Papers on Economic and Social Policy 4 (1995): 283–322.

Craig Riddell, “Canadian Labour Market Performance in International Perspective.” Canadian Journal of Economics 32 (November 1999): 1097–1134.

2. Why unions matter

Thomas Lemieux, “Unions and Wage Inequality in Canada and the United States.” Pp. 69–108 in David Card and Richard Freeman (eds.), Small Differences That Matter. University of Chicago Press 1993.

David Card, Thomas Lemieux and W Craig Riddell, “Unionization and Wage Inequality: A Comparative Study of the U.S., the U.K., and Canada.” National Bureau of Economic Research, Working Paper #9473, January 2003

3. Gender differences

Baker, Michael and Nicole Fortin, “Women’s Wages in Women’s Work: A US/Canada Comparison of the Roles of Unions and Public Goods Sector Jobs”, American Economic Review, 89, May 1999, 198–203.

Denise Doiron and Garry Barrett, “Inequality in male and female earnings: the role of hours and wages” Review of Economics and Statistics 78 (1996) 410–20.

4. Education, skills and technological change: two views

Paul Beaudry and David Green “Cohort patterns in Canadian earnings: assessing the role of skill premia in inequality trends” Canadian Journal of Economics 33 (Nov 2000) 907–36.

Kevin M. Murphy, W. Craig Riddell and Paul M. Romer, “Wages, Skills and Technology in the United States and Canada.” Pp. 283–309 in General Purpose Technologies and Economic Growth edited by Elhanan Helpman. Cambridge: MIT Press, 1998, pp. 283–309.