[TURC] Re: Stagnant wages outside the oil boom provinces

  • From: Kim Pollock <kbpollock54@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: turc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:27:21 -0800

M.

You might be interested in this draft paper, written over the past month.

Regards,

K.

On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 10:09 AM, Michal Rozworski <
michal.rozworski@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> This might be useful: a quick blog showing that wages have been basically
> stagnant since the recession ended in 2009 if you subtract the oil
> provinces from the Canadian aggregate (which still leaves ~83% of workers).
> The same division into oil and RoC also shows very limited wage growth
> since the turn of the millennium.
>
>
> https://politicalehconomy.wordpress.com/2015/02/25/stagnant-wages-for-over-80-of-canadian-workers/
>
> Not sure if others have done this, but I suppose once more doesn't hurt
> either. Especially since I still keep seeing the meme that wages aren't
> stagnant in Canada at all lately, ergo we can't compare Canada to the US
> (implicite: rising inequality isn't that big a problem, etc).
>
> Cheers,
> Michal
>

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