Finance committee  It's going to be difficult for me to improve on it. Some of the increase in after-tax inequality of the 1990s, as was pointed out earlier, can be traced back to some cutbacks in social assistance, but also to the removal of some surtaxes in some provinces. There are some that ar

Finance committee  I think you rightly mentioned that many of the technical jobs now almost require some post-secondary degree. A mechanic today uses a computer quite a lot more than before. I think this emphasizes the point that high school completion has to be an important goal of public policy,

Finance committee  Women are more likely than men to work part time. When employment insurance measures allow part-time workers to accumulate hours to qualify for benefits, that seems to work in their favour. What was your second question?

Finance committee  Those measures will affect income after taxes. That should be to the disadvantage of those workers. The impact of trade on the increase in inequalities has been difficult to establish. That is why it is a bit hard to predict anything when it comes to the measures you talked about

Finance committee  I would simply like to mention that the big educational divide in Canada is with aboriginal communities. This is really where a lot of emphasis should be placed. If we're thinking that the basic building block begins with education, this is where the big gaps are.

Finance committee  There is only one tool to describe wage inequality. This would actually add more emphasis to what's happening in the middle. To the extent that we're concerned about people at the top getting an increasing share over time, they're not necessarily describing that phenomenon. I

Finance committee  [Technical Difficulty—Editor]...in routine jobs that have been displaced. It's good to hear that those who are doing very well have been able to recycle, many of them in IT jobs and so on. There are possibilities there, of course. The lowest performing will move to service jobs,

Finance committee  I'm glad to be here. Today I will provide some highlights on a recent paper on Canadian wage inequality in Canada. As others have said, it's important to note that the changes in income inequality in Canada have been different from changes in the United States, where the chang