Women and work

"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. Book jacket."--Jacket

Proceedings of a conference held at John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, Queen's University, April 5-7, 1998.

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The gender earnings gap amongst Canadian Bachelor's level university graduates : a cross-cohort, longitudinal analysis / Ross Finnie and Ted Wannell -- Women and men's entitlement to workplace benefits : the influence of work arrangements / Brenda Lipsett and Mark Reesor -- Technological change, organization change and skill requirements : impacts on women in the workforce / Gordon Betcherman, Darren Lauzon and Norm Leckie -- The effect of computer skills and training on salaries : a study of male and female industrial relations and human resource management professionals / Caroline L. Weber and Isik Urla Zeytinoǧlu -- The self-sufficiency project : what have we learned so far? / John Greenwood -- The dynamics of welfare participation in Quebec / Jean-Yves Duclos [and others] -- Social assistance and the employment rate of lone mothers : an analysis of Ontario's live experiment / Constantine Kapsalis -- Unions, collective bargaining and labour market outcomes for Canadian working women : past gains and future challenges / Andrew Jackson and Grant Schellenberg -- The impact of labour market transformations on the effectiveness of laws promoting workplace gender equity / Marie-Thérè…