TY - JOUR
T1 - Gender pay inequality and occupational change in Canada, 1900-1930
AU - Altman, Morris
AU - Lamontacne, Louise
PY - 1996
Y1 - 1996
N2 - Using material available in the Canadian censuses, we construct some of the most detailed historical estimates for the industrialized world for occupational structure and the gender pay gap from 1900 to 1930. Our findings suggest that pay inequality in Canada diminished over the period under study, although the rate of pay received by women remained substantially below that of men. This decline is found to be due, to a large extent, to the changing occupational structure between women and men over time which involved both the gradual dominance of women in clerical work and the absence of any change in labor market segmentation. We also find that, for each year examined in this study, the differential distribution of women and men between sectors did not play a large role in accounting for the pay gap.
AB - Using material available in the Canadian censuses, we construct some of the most detailed historical estimates for the industrialized world for occupational structure and the gender pay gap from 1900 to 1930. Our findings suggest that pay inequality in Canada diminished over the period under study, although the rate of pay received by women remained substantially below that of men. This decline is found to be due, to a large extent, to the changing occupational structure between women and men over time which involved both the gradual dominance of women in clerical work and the absence of any change in labor market segmentation. We also find that, for each year examined in this study, the differential distribution of women and men between sectors did not play a large role in accounting for the pay gap.
KW - Gender wage gap
KW - Wage
KW - Wage gaps
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=0030527127&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S1053-5357(96)90007-4
DO - 10.1016/S1053-5357(96)90007-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0030527127
VL - 25
SP - 285
EP - 309
JO - Journal of Socio-Economics
JF - Journal of Socio-Economics
SN - 1053-5357
IS - 3
ER -