Characteristics Of Low Wage Workers In Ontario

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Download or read book Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Low-paid Workers in Canada - Ron Saunders - Vulnerable Workers Series - No|4 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She uses the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (SLID) to look at full-year, full-time workers with low hourly earnings in 1996.6 While confirming the relative concentration of low pay among women, the young, and the less-educated, Janz's results also indicate that the incidence of low pay is pay is high in service or manual labour occupations (especially for women), and in the manufacturing, di. [...] Trends in Low Pay Since the Early 1980s We have examined the current profile of low pay in Canada: the incidence of low-paid jobs, the characteristics of low-paid workers, and the extent to which low-paid individuals live in low- income families. [...] How has the relationship between individual low pay and low income in family units changed over time? Both the rise in the number of dual-earner families, which is associated with the increasing labour force participation of women, and the substantial growth in the educational 16 Morissette and Johnson also look at the change over time in the incidence of temporary jobs among newly hired employees. [...] Mobility Out of Low Pay While the profile of low-paid jobs and the trends over time in the incidence of low pay are of interest from a policy perspective, one also wants to know about the length of time workers spend in low-paid jobs. [...] Is the durability of low pay and low job quality the result of the competitive pressures associated with globalization? Has the greater mobility of capital contributed to the stagnation of median wages? More research is needed on the forces driving the low-wage part of our economy.