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Analysis of gender-based family income inequality in Canada

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  • Jeffrey Mills
  • Sourushe Zandvakili

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Using decomposable measures of inequality and applying bootstrapping methods in order to draw statistical inference, gender-based earnings inequality in conjunction with education and immigration status in Canada is investigated.

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  • Jeffrey Mills & Sourushe Zandvakili, 2004. "Analysis of gender-based family income inequality in Canada," Applied Economics Letters, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 11(8), pages 469-472.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:apeclt:v:11:y:2004:i:8:p:469-472
    DOI: 10.1080/1350485042000244486
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    2. Nong Zhu & Cecile Batisse, 2014. "L'inégalité, la pauvreté et l'intégration économique des immigrants au Canada depuis les années 1990," CIRANO Working Papers 2014s-10, CIRANO.
    3. Judith Clarke & Nilanjana Roy, 2012. "On statistical inference for inequality measures calculated from complex survey data," Empirical Economics, Springer, vol. 43(2), pages 499-524, October.
    4. Zhu, Nong & Batisse, Cécile, 2011. "L’inégalité, la pauvreté et l’intégration économique des immigrants au Canada depuis les années quatre-vingt-dix," L'Actualité Economique, Société Canadienne de Science Economique, vol. 87(3), pages 227-268, septembre.
    5. Yue Ma & Ying Chu Ng, 2008. "Bootstrapping statistical inferences of decomposition methods for gender earnings differentials," Applied Economics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 40(12), pages 1583-1593.
    6. Nong Zhu & Denise Helly, 2014. "L'inégalité, la pauvreté et l'intégration économique des immigrants au Canada," CIRANO Working Papers 2014s-15, CIRANO.

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