BY: RACHEL BERNIER
Statistics Canada
Business and Labor Market Analysis
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Paper ID: Statistics Canada Working Paper No. 109
Date: December 1997
Contact: Valerie Thibault
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ABSTRACT:
In addition to confirming a wage gap between Canadian workers as
a whole and those of Aboriginal origin, our research also
generated new findings: there is greater disparity in the
distribution of wages among Aboriginals than among Canadian
workers as a whole, even after allowing for demographic
differences. Our analysis does not stop there. Indeed, this
analysis can hide considerable wage dispersions between
Aboriginal groups since appreciable wage gaps were noted between
these groups. Having said this, wage dispersion is most likely
greater for certain Aboriginal groups than others. Since this
aspect has never been studied before, the purpose of this paper
is to document differences in wage dispersion for the four main
Aboriginal groups. Our results show that North American Indians
living on reserves are the most disadvantaged Aboriginal group
because their earnings are substantially lower than those of the
other groups.
JEL Classification: J31