Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/188910 
Year of Publication: 
2018
Series/Report no.: 
Queen's Economics Department Working Paper No. 1398
Publisher: 
Queen's University, Department of Economics, Kingston (Ontario)
Abstract: 
This paper looks at changes in employment and relative wages of near higher earnings (NHE) workers between middle-class (MC) and higher earners (HE) in Canada over 2000-2015. An approach is also forwarded for evaluating these changes in terms of underlying demand and supply factors. It is found that the NHE behaves as a transition group between quite different patterns of change of the MC and HE groups, and that these changes have been recently attenuating. The MC group experienced a downward shift in employment demand, the HE group an upward shift in demand, and the NHE group an upward shift in supply of workers.
Subjects: 
Income equality
Canadian earnings
near higher earnings
JEL: 
C12
J20
J31
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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