Offering a collection of essays on labour law and women's work, this text explores the relationship between precarious work and gender, evaluating the extent to which the growth and spread of precarious work challenges traditional norms of labour law and conventional forms of le…
We review the burgeoning literature on the employment effects of minimum wages - in the United States and in other countries - that was spurred by the new minimum wage research beginning in the early 1990s. Our review indicates that there is a wide range of existing estimates an…
Une première partie présente l'état du marché du travail au Canada et au Québec, l'évolution des formes d'emploi, les questions du travail autonome et de la sous-traitance et celle de l'emploi et du travail des jeunes. La seconde partie aborde les théories de l'économie du trava…
The subject of personality has received increasing attention from industrial/organizational psychologists in both research and practice settings over the past decade. But while there is an overabundance of information related to the narrow area of personality testing and employe…
"Graduate schools churn out tens of thousands of PhDs and MAs every year. Yet more than half of all college courses are taught by adjunct faculty, which means that the chances of an academic landing a tenure-track job seem only to shrink as student loan and credit card debts gro…
Explores the Netherland's recovery from the severe unemployment crisis in the early 1980s to record job growth in the 1990s. Distinguishes three policy changes to explain the "miracle": the wage restraints since the early 1980s; the reform of the social security system ten years…
« The fifth edition of Professional Issues in Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology is a singularly comprehensive resource for students in speech-language pathology and audiology as they prepare for their professional careers. It also serves as a timely source of information f…
