Inégalités salariales et bilinguisme au Québec et au Nouveau-Brunswick, 1970 à 2000

Using census data, the authors measures the link between salary, French-speaking or English-speaking origin and French-English bilingualism between 1970 and 2000 in Quebec and New Brunswick. They note that this population was designated by economists and sociologists from the 1930s to 1970s as the standard population for the analysis of wage inequalities between Francophones and Anglophones in Canada. They found the almost uninterrupted presence from 1970 to 2000 of a historical link between salary, French or English origin and bilingualism in New Brunswick. However, their data on Quebec from 1970 indicates that this historical link gradually disappeared from 1970 to 1995, and in 1995, for the first time, they observed that bilingual employees were better paid than unilingual employees and also better paid, whether they come from the Francophone or Anglophone community. This result for Quebec in 1995 is almost reproduced as it is by their census data on wages for the year 2000.

Recherches sociographiques

Vol. 51

no. 1-2

75-101

2010

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