Table 3 Addressing selection bias: Selectivity-adjusted gender wage ratios

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  1988 1998 2008 1988 to 2008
ratio change
All workers age 25 to 54
Employment rates
Men 0.876 0.845 0.865 -0.011
Women 0.675 0.722 0.781 0.106
Unadjusted wage ratio 0.757 0.811 0.833 0.076
Selectivity-adjusted wage ratio
k = 1.0 0.742 0.807 0.834 0.093
k = 0.9 0.721 0.807 0.848 0.127
Synthetic cohort: Workers age 25 to 29 in 1988 and 45 to 49 in 2008
Employment rates
Men 0.853 0.863 0.867 0.014
Women 0.694 0.732 0.804 0.110
Unadjusted wage ratio 0.846 0.805 0.784 -0.062
Selectivity-adjusted wage ratio
k = 1.0 0.835 0.805 0.781 -0.054
k = 0.9 0.827 0.805 0.803 -0.024
Note: Sample of non-participants includes persons who are unemployed, not in the labour force and self-employed.
Sources: Statistics Canada, Labour Market Activity Survey, 1988 to 1990; Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics, 1993 to 1996; Labour Force Survey, 1998 to 2008.