What has happened to middle-class earnings?

Beach, Charles M

This paper examines how middle-class earnings in Canada have changed between 1970 and 2005 using Census microdata. Middle-class earnings are defined as workers' earnings between 50 and 150 percent of the median or as earnings between the 20th and 80th percentile earnings. The analysis looks at the proportion of workers "workers' share" with middle-class earnings and the proportion of earnings "earnings share" received by middle-class workers.

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