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Women and work / [editors, Richard P. Chaykowski and Lisa M. Powell].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Chaykowski, Richard, Author.
- Series:
- Queen's Policy Studies Series ; 47
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Women--Employment--Canada--Congresses.
- Women.
- Women employees.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (314 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : Published for the School of Policy Studies, Queen's University by McGill-Queen's University Press, c1999.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Women and Work offers analyses of women and the labour market with respect to a wide range of topics that include technological change, skill requirements, and training; income security programs and work decisions of lone parents; the dynamics of welfare participation; school-to-work transitions; equality legislation; and collective bargaining, remuneration, and workplace benefits. Contributors include Gordon Betcherman (Canadian Policy Research Networks and Ekos Research associates), Marie-Thérèse Chicha (Université de Montréal), Ross Finnie (Queen's University and Statistics Canada), John Greenwood (Social Research and Demonstration Corporation), Andrew Jackson (Canadian Labour Congress), Constantine Kapsalis (Data Probe Economic Consulting), Darren Lauzon (HRDC and Statistics Canada), Norm Leckie (Ekos Research Associates), Brenda Lipsett (Human Resources Development Canada), Mark Reesor (Human Resources Development Canada), Ted Wannell (Statistics Canada), Caroline L. Weber (Queen's University), and I'ik Urla Zeytino'lu (McMaster University).
- Contents:
- ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgement""; ""Preface""; ""The Gender Earnings Gap Amongst Canadian Bachelor's Level University Graduates: A Cross-Cohort, Longitudinal Analysis""; ""Women and Men's Entitlement to Workplace Benefits: The Influence of Work Arrangements""; ""Technological Change, Organization Change, and Skill Requirements: Impacts on Women in the Workforce""; ""The Effect of Computer Skills and Training on Salaries: A Study of Male and Female Industrial Relations and Human Resource Management Professionals""; ""The Self-Sufficiency Project: What Have We Learned So Far?""
- ""The Dynamics of Welfare Participation in Quebec""""Social Assistance and the Employment Rate of Lone Mothers: An Analysis of Ontario's Live Experiment""; ""Unions, Collective Bargaining and Labour Market Outcomes for Canadian Working Women: Past Gains and Future Challenges""; ""The Impact of Labour Market Transformations on the Effectiveness of Laws Promoting Workplace Gender Equality""; ""Contributors""
- Notes:
- Proceedings of a conference held at John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University, April 5-7, 1998.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-7423-9
- OCLC:
- 923230528
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