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Gender Equity in Canadian Postsecondary Educational Institutions. CHERD/CSSHE Reader Series Number 3.
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Clifton, Rodney A., Ed.; Roberts, Lance W., Ed.; Perry, Raymond P., Ed. – 1998
This publication is part of a series that reprints articles on a range of thematic issues published in the "Canadian Journal of Higher Education." This collection focuses on gender equity in Canada's postsecondary educational institutions (for both students and teachers). After a preface and an introduction, the five articles are:…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Equal Education, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Females
Losing Work, Moving On: International Perspectives on Worker Displacement.
Kuhn, Peter J., Ed. – 2002
This volume presents 6 papers by 22 labor economists who examine and address worker displacement in 10 industrialized countries (Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Great Britain, Japan, Netherlands, United States). "Summary and Synthesis" (Peter J. Kuhn) discusses these four categories of lessons learned from panel…
Descriptors: Business Responsibility, Case Studies, Developed Nations, Dislocated Workers
Employee Benefits and Labor Markets in Canada and the United States.
Alpert, William T., Ed.; Woodbury, Stephen A., Ed. – 2000
This book contains 14 original research chapters on various aspects of the employee benefits systems of Canada and the United States. Following an introduction by William Alpert and Stephen Woodbury and an overview chapter, "Does the Composition of Pay Matter?" (Sherwin Rosen), Part 1 of the book consists of three chapters that treat the…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Working Time in Comparative Perspective. Volume I: Patterns, Trends, and the Policy Implications for Earnings Inequality and Unemployment.
Wong, Ging, Ed.; Picot, Garnett, Ed. – 2001
This is the first of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference on "Changes in Working Time in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters focus on weekly hours worked by individuals, including the recent changes in the distribution of weekly working time in Canada and the U.S., implications of the changing…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Developed Nations, Employment, Employment Level
Teacher Preparation and Professional Development in APEC Members: A Comparative Study.
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Darling-Hammond, Linda, Ed.; Cobb, Velma L., Ed. – 1995
This document is the final report of Phase I of a comparative study of teacher-training practices among 12 nation members of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation. The purposes of the study were to: (1) provide concrete, comparable descriptions of teacher-preparation systems useful to educators, researchers, and policymakers in all APEC member…
Descriptors: Beginning Teacher Induction, Comparative Education, Elementary Secondary Education, Faculty Development
Pay at Risk: Compensation and Employment Risk in the United States and Canada.
Turner, John A., Ed. – 2001
This document's seven papers examine compensation and employment risk in the United States and Canada. "Introduction" (John A. Turner) discusses compensation risk bearing in labor markets. "Wage and Job Risk for Workers" (John A. Turner) explores the problems of macroeconomic instability, job turnover, job and earnings…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Economic Change
Young Workers: Varieties of Experience.
Barling, Julian, Ed.; Kelloway, E. Kevin, Ed. – 1999
This book contains nine papers devoted to the psychological experience of youth employment and its role in shaping future employment experiences and expectations. "Introduction" (Julian Barling, E. Kevin Kelloway) emphasizes the diversity of young people as a group and the diversity of individual youth's employment experience. "The…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adjustment (to Environment), Adolescents, Attitude Change