Abstract
This article analyzes the female rural-urban wage gap in Canada using longitudinal data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics 1993-96. We estimate a two-step wage equation accounting for unobserved heterogeneity and sample selection. The results indicate that a statistically and economically significant rural-urban wage gap remains after controlling for observed and unobserved characteristics. Further, the results suggest this rural-urban wage difference is not simply induced by immobility between rural and urban markets. Rather, consistent with the effect of thinner rural labor markets, the evidence indicates that rural-urban differences in the impact of a number of explanatory variables are significant.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 1138-1151 |
Number of pages | 14 |
Journal | American Journal of Agricultural Economics |
Volume | 86 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2004 |
Keywords
- Canada
- female wage gap
- rural labor markets
- sample selection
- unobserved heterogeneity
- EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES
- RURAL AMERICA
- PARTICIPATION
- DIFFERENTIALS
- MOBILITY
- RENTS
- LIFE
- MEN