This paper provides evidence of on-the-job training for lowpaid workers in Canada and examines workplace and individual factors associated with their on-the-job training. The study uses Statistics Canada’s Workplace and Employee Survey (WES) 2001 data. Results show that less than a quarter of...

The objective of this paper is to distinguish between different types of working poverty, on the basis of the mechanisms that produce it. Whereas the poverty literature identifies a myriad of risk factors and of categories of disadvantaged workers, we focus on three immediate causes of working...

Die relativ hohe Arbeitslosigkeit von weniger qualifizierten Arbeitskräften hat viele Industrieländer dazu veranlasst, die Beschäftigung im Niedriglohnbereich zu fördern. Maßnahmen, wie beschäftigungsabhängige Steuergutschriften und Transferleistungen an Niedrigverdiener, die vor allem in...

The case studies and analyses developed in this timely book provide insight into the structural features of small and medium-sized firms in the information technology sector, and the implications of these features for the careers of people who are employed by them