Distributional Gains of Near Higher Earners

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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.

Object Details

• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 1398

Classification and Topics

• Classification: Wirtschaft ; Hypothesis Testing: General ; Demand and Supply of Labor: General ; Wage Level and Structure; Wage Differentials
• Subject: Income equality ; Canadian earnings ; near higher earnings

Contributors, Places and Time

• Event: Geistige Schöpfung
• (who): Beach, Charles M.
• Event: Veröffentlichung
• (who): Queen's University, Department of Economics
• (where): Kingston (Ontario)
• (when): 2018

Further information

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/188910
• Last update: 10.03.2025, 11:42 AM CET