Selected Publications:  Journal Articles,   In Books

Journal Articles:

Unconditional Quantile Regressions, Econometrica, 77 (May 2009): 953–973. (with S. Firpo and T. Lemieux)

The Gender Wage Gap among Young Adults in the United States: The Importance of Money vs. People, Journal of Human Resources, 43 (Fall 2008): 886-920.

Higher Education Policies and the College Premium: Cross-State Evidence from the 1990s, American Economic Review, 96 (September 2006): 959-987 (*.pdf)

Gender Role Attitudes and the Labour Market Outcomes of Women Across OECD Countries, Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 21 (November 2005): 416-438 (*.pdf)

Comparable Worth in a Decentralized Labor Market: The Case of Ontario, Canadian Journal of Economics, 37 (November 2004): 850 - 878. (with M. Baker) (*.pdf)

Occupational Gender Segregation and Women's Wages in Canada: an Historical Perspective, Canadian Public Policy, 28 (May 2002): S11- S40. (with M. Huberman) (*.pdf)

Occupational Gender Composition and Wages in Canada: 1987-1988, Canadian Journal of Economics, 34 ( April 2001): 345-376. (with M. Baker) (*.pdf)

Are Women's Wage Gains Men's Losses? A Distributional Test, American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 90 (May 2000): 456-460. (with T. Lemieux)

Women's Wages in Women's Work: A US/Canada Comparison of the Roles of Unions and `Public Goods' Sector Jobs American Economic Review, Papers and Proceedings, 89 (May 1999): 198-203. (with M. Baker)

Rank Regressions, Wage Distributions, and the Gender Gap, Journal of Human Resources, 33 (Summer 1998):610-643.(with T. Lemieux)

Institutional Changes and Rising Wage Inequality: Is There a Linkage?, Journal of Economic Perspectives, 11 (Spring 1997): 75-96.(with T. Lemieux)

Labour Market Institutions and the Distribution of Wages, 1973-1992: a Semiparametric Approach, Econometrica, 64 (September 1996): 1001-1046.(with J. DiNardo and T. Lemieux)

Allocation Inflexibilities, Female Labor Supply and Housing Assets Accumulation: Are Women Working to Pay the Mortgage, Journal of Labor Economics, 13 (July 1995): 524-557.

Heterogeneity Biases, Distributional Effects and Aggregate Consumption: An Empirical Analysis using Stratified Micro-Data, Journal of Applied Econometrics, 10 (July/September 1995): 287-311.

In Books: Decomposition Methods, in O. Ashenfelter and D. Card (eds.) Handbook of Labor Economics, Vol. 4A, Amsterdam: North-Holland , 2011, 1-102. (with T. Lemieux and S. Firpo)   The Training Divide: A Canada-US Comparison of Employee Training inTraining and Development: Country Experiences, edited by K.B.S. Kumar, ICFAI University Press, Andhra Pradesh, India, 65-125. 2007. (with D. Parent)   Gender Dimensions of Changes in Earnings Inequality in Canada (with T. Schirle) in Dimensions of Inequality in Canada, edited by J. Kesselman and D. Green, eds. Volume 1. forthcoming.   Rising Tuition and Supply Constraints: Explaining Canada-U.S. Differences in University Enrollment Rates in Higher Education in Canada, edited by  C. Beach , R.W. Boadway, Robin W., and R. M. McInnis,  John Deutsch Institute, McGill-Queens' University  Press, 2005: 369-413. (*.pdf)   Income Redistribution in Canada: Minimum Wages versus Other Policy Instruments," (with T. Lemieux), in Public Policies in a Labour Market in Transition, edited by W.C. Riddell and F. St-Hilaire, IRPP. , 2000: 211-247. (*.pdf)   Intergenerational Income Mobility in Canada" (with S. Lefebvre) in Labour Markets, Social Institutions, and the Future of Canada's Children, edited by Miles Corak. Statistics Canada: Ottawa. November 1998. pp.51-63. (*.pdf)