Over the past 16 years, a legislative and policy framework has evolved in Canada to address systemic discrimination in … employment in the federal jurisdiction, and in organizations that sell goods or services to the federal government. Data … collected pursuant to the Employment Equity Act, as well as published literature and government documents, are reviewed in order …

Affirmative action in the USA, and employment equity in Canada, are policy frameworks that have developed through the … discrimination in employment. Managing diversity, in contrast, is a voluntary initiative by corporate decision makers, at the level …

As US firms expand into Canada, it becomes necessary for them to be aware of Canadian law governing labour and … employment. Unlike what many might think, the laws in the two countries are substantially different. Further, the effects of …

Purpose – The paper aims at providing evidence on the impact on employment of outward foreign direct investment …/methodology/approach – The effects of foreign production undertaken by Belgian foreign-oriented companies on employment in Belgium are … investigated by performing econometric tests for complementarity or substitution between home and affiliate employment. The data …

wages, employment effects of outward foreign direct investment, immigration patterns, and regional social and labour …

to calculate differences in the probability of employment for different fields of study and propensity score matching to … graduating from a particular field of study affects the probability of employment in all three years. In general, regardless of … the field, the authors observe decreasing probabilities of employment in 2008 and 2009. Using propensity score matching …

Purpose – This paper seeks to explore whether temporary jobs are a port of entry into permanent employment and to argue …. Findings – The authors show that the transition to permanent employment is more likely for individuals who hold any type of …

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of minimum wages on employment and wages in China. Design …/methodology/approach – The paper uses the difference-in-difference methodology to estimate the employment and wage impacts of the minimum wage … minimum wages. Findings – The study finds that overall, minimum wages in China do have an adverse employment effect but the …

paper is to analyze their impact on wage growth and employment retention probability of affected workers. Design … minimum wage regulation in both parts of the country. When it comes to employment effects, the results clearly differ between … the two parts of the country. The employment effects are negative for East Germany and positive for West Germany, although …