In July 2002, New Brunswick convened a Wage Gap Roundtable to look at the wage gap in its entirety and to identify its causes and possible solutions.

It also remains concerned over the wage gap between men and women.

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The projects were critical in covering the non wage funding gap for key social ministries.

In 2004, the wage gap in New Brunswick was 15.5 percent based on average hourly earnings.

The table shows that the wage gap between sectors is to the disadvantage of private sector employees.

In February 2002, an independent task force on pay equity created a report entitled Working Through the Wage Gap.

Governments must introduce measures to address the persistent gender wage gap, including the extension of collective bargaining to all of the public sector, and the introduction of a national living wage.

The wage gap within organizations that have implemented pay equity under the policy framework has been reduced for those organizations.

Convention No. 100 The wage gap and statistical data. In a direct request of 2004, the Committee continued its discussion on the manner in which policies and reforms were facilitating the access of women to posts of greater responsibility and are contributing to narrowing the wage gap between men and women.

Based on the methodology used in the agreement, there has been a significant reduction in the wage gap between female and male dominated positions.

Recent Statistics Canada reports show that the wage gap has been reduced for full time female workers in Ontario by approximately six percentage points since l987.

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Closing New Brunswick's Wage Gap An Economic Imperative recommended that Government develop a five year action plan of voluntary actions and an evaluative framework to measure change over time.

In reality, however, information from Thailand's Report on the Implementation of the Millennium Development Goal reveals that there is a wage gap of approximately 20 between men and women workers.

More information would have to be provided in the next report on the actual wage gap in Latvia, and the Government might have to order a special survey to determine the figures.

The studies indicate that this wage gap can only be explained by discrimination if it were not for discrimination, many women, being better educated than men, would be better paid than them.

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In a monetary union, there are only two ways to close a competitiveness gap between countries transfers from the more competitive to the less competitive, or internal devaluation, which means real wage cuts.

PEI has the lowest male female wage gap in Canada for several reasons, one of which is the number of workers who are covered by federal or provincial public sector pay equity initiatives.

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The Government also needed to pay close attention to the wage gap of nearly 35 per cent, so that it could adhere to the basic principle of equal pay for work of equal value.

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Earlier work by Lustig and her coauthors found that a declining wage premium that is, a drop in the wage gap between workers with high and low education explained part of the decline in the Gini coefficient in Latin American countries. It is not easy to disentangle the role of supply and demand factors in the reduction of the wage premium, but both seem to have played a role.

The main culprit behind the languishing fortunes of America s middle class is slow wage growth. After peaking in the early 1970s, real (inflation adjusted) median earnings of full time workers aged 25 64 stagnated, partly owing to a slowdown in productivity growth and partly because of a yawning gap between productivity and wage growth.

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Gap has widened.

But perhaps the other, bigger gap is what we call the hope gap.

See that gap there? There's a gap, and it affects all the other stories.

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