Earnings variability and earnings instability of women and men in Canada: How do the 1990s compare to the 1980s?

Canadian Public Policy

Volumn 29, Issue SUPPL, 2003, Pages

  Beach, Charles M ^a   Finnie, Ross ^a   Gray, David ^b  

^a QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPARATIVE STUDY; GENDER DISPARITY; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; WAGE GAP;

CANADA;

EID: 0037236074     PISSN: 03170861     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2307/3552276     Document Type: Article

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