Template-Type: ReDIF-Paper 1.0
Author-Name: Amy Peng
Author-X-Name-First: Amy
Author-X-Name-Last: Peng
Author-Email: apeng@economics.ryerson.ca 
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Author-Name: Louis N. Christofides
Author-X-Name-First: Louis
Author-X-Name-Last: Christofides
Author-Email: louis.christofides.ucy.ac.cy
Author-Workplace-Name: Department of Economics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
Title: Real Wage Chronology
Abstract: We process information in a large number of Canadian wage contracts, signed
over a period of several decades, to generate the long-run history of the
real wage for each bargaining pair. We term these hitherto unexamined
histories ‘chronologies’. We are able to generate 1574 continuous real wage
chronologies and we examine the evolution of the real wage in each case.
We explore the influence of productivity growth, the labour relations record
of the pair, the influence of industry and region as well as the initial wage
on the growth of the real wage rate over the decades in the sample. We
also consider the relation between the mean and variance of the real wage
contained in these chronologies.
Classification-JEL: E31, J41, J50 
Keywords: Wages, productivity, labour relations, compensating differentials,convergence.
Length: 36 pages
Creation-Date: 2009-11
Number: 011
File-URL: http://economics.ryerson.ca/workingpapers/wp011.pdf
File-Format: Application/pdf
Handle: RePEc:rye:wpaper:wp011