Further and Further Away: Canada's unrealized digital potential

most from the digitalization of the economy reflect the people living in Canada? While discussions on the potential negative impact of new production technology on workers have been analyzed since the advent of the industrial revolution (such as those that are explored in Ricardo (1821), recent developments in research have focused especially on the proliferation of personal computers, which large. [...] Figure 8 Effect of age on probability of being a tech worker in Canada FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY: CANADA’S UNREALIZED DIGITAL POTENTIAL 29 How pay in technology work has shifted The simple wage premium One aspect of the examination of the impact of digitalization of work, is understanding the pay differential associated with working in a more digital occupational context. [...] However, given the participation barrier women face in tech jobs that In 2001, there was no we outlined in the previous section, there is a non-trivial chance that this is driven by changes in observable pay gap the number of women in the tech sector (changes between immigrant and in women who remain in tech work, as opposed to those who leave), as opposed to the actual non-immigrant tech eliminat. [...] The lack of a gap of wage growth across the distribution of income FURTHER AND FURTHER AWAY: CANADA’S UNREALIZED DIGITAL POTENTIAL 35 levels between the 1980s and 2006, showing that the high and low end of the income distribution, job polarization has not occurred in Canada for has not been documented of occupations in the the period beginning the the 1990s. [...] 11 Due to O*NET not being available before 2003, the 3 Middle skill in this strand of research was often 2001 digital intensity measure is the exact same as considered to be those in the middle of the wage that in 2006, which means that the digital intensity distribution, who are neither considered low or percentile for both years comprise of the exact high skilled—and involved a range of occupati.