Aboriginal Earnings in Canada

The Importance of Gender, Education, and Industry

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ID7700632
AuthorsMichael Haan (0009-0002-7274-4618), Georgina Chuatico, Jules Cornetet (0000-0001-7202-8369)
Year2020
Volume52
Issue2
Pages1-27
Publication date2020-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueCanadian ethnic studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0008-3496 • E-ISSN: 1913-8253
PublisherProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/ces.2020.0011
OpenAlexW3037194489
LanguageEN
Citations received5

The contrasting social and economic inequalities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples has been the focus of many Canadian studies. Several interlinking factors have been found to impact the socioeconomic status of Canada's Indigenous peoples, including social distance, education, gender, and occupational characteristics. Few of these studies, however, look at the gender wage gap amongst Indigenous populations, and in this paper, we identify some of the factors that drive both income and differences in income between men and women, amongst Indigenous peoples. Using data from the 2017 Aboriginal Peoples Survey (APS), we examine key socioeconomic factors and identify how these are linked to income. We find that education and employment industry are major indicators of socioeconomic status, as are the interactions between gender and income. We also find a persistent gender wage gap amongst Canada's Indigenous peoples, but we find that this gap can be explained by differences in the returns to education, skill levels, and industry of employment

Demographic economics · Earnings · Economic growth · Economics · Geography · Indigenous · Inequality · Labour economics · Occupational prestige · Political science · Population · Socioeconomic status · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Wage · Demography · Indigenous Health, Education, and Rights · Indigenous Studies and Ecology

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