Description for chart 15
Kernel density of post-LTJ-to-LTJ earnings ratio, by age group at long-term job (LTJ) exit, female workers aged 50 or older, Canada, 1994 to 2010

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The title of the graph is Kernel density of post-LTJ-to-LTJ earnings ratios, by age group at long-term job (LTJ) exit, female workers aged 50 or older, Canada, 1994 to 2010.

This is a line chart.

The horizontal axis starts at 0 and ends at 2. There are 50 categories in the horizontal axis. The vertical axis starts at 0 and ends at 2.5.

The vertical axis is Density.

The horizontal axis is post-LTJ-to-LTJ earnings ratio.

There are three series in this graph, each for a different age-at-LTJ-exit group. The age groups are: 50 to 54 (series 1), 55 to 59 (series 2), and 60 to 64 (series3). Each series represents the kernel density estimates of the ratio of post-LTJ earnings from paid employment to LTJ earnings. The ratio has been topcoded at 2.

The graph shows that among workers aged 60 to 64, there is a high concentration of workers with very low earnings ratios, in the neighbourhood of 0.1, or 10%. Among workers aged 55 to 59 at LTJ exit, there is also a high concentration around low ratio values, although not as high as among the older group. At the same time, the distribution is bi-modal, with another, much smaller, peak at around 0.75. Finally, for workers aged 50 to 54 at LTJ exit, the kernel density peaks between 0.1 and 0.2, with another peak of similar height at around 0.9. There is more concentration around 0.9 than around 0.1 among this group.

This graph illustrates that the younger a worker was at LTJ-exit, the more likely she was to have earnings similar to those she earned in her LTJ. It also illustrates that a large share of workers who left LTJs in their early 60s and returned to work at some point, earned annually a small fraction of what they used to earn in their LTJ.