cover image: The gender wage gap in New Brunswick

Premium

20.500.12592/k12v09

The gender wage gap in New Brunswick

3 Nov 2005

The small overall change in public transfers could be due to the larger role played by the demographic composition of the population in determining the values of these transfers. [...] GENUINE PROGRESS INDEX 22 Measuring Sustainable Development _____________________________________________________________ Chapter 3 Identifying the Gender Wage Gap in New Brunswick In this chapter, we will pursue the following two objectives: 1. Identification of the wage gap between male and female workers resident in the Province of New Brunswick, 2. Division of the wage gap into “explained” and [...] To account for the econometric problem of heteroscedasticity, log of wage instead of actual wage was used as the dependent variable.8 In estimation of the human capital model, the unit of analysis is a paid worker resident in New Brunswick, aged 18-64, who is not enrolled as a full-time student in the reference year. [...] The wage differences are narrower in middle-sized urban areas than in both rural areas and the most densely populated urban areas.12 Table 3.3 results show that the gender pay differences in New Brunswick are the broadest in the agriculture and forestry sectors and narrowest in public administration. [...] Differences in the average values of log of wage rate paid to a woman and to a man provide a ratio of the wage of a woman to that of a man.
health gender government education politics economics economy labour market discrimination demography employment equal pay for equal work labour unemployment wages tax government budget survey personal income taxes wage gap further education employee worker elasticity (economics) pay equity dummy variable (statistics) genuine progress index gender wage gap cross-sectional study gender earnings gap sex discrimination in employment

Authors

Akbari, Syed Ather Hussain

Pages
93
Published in
Canada

Related Topics

All