The Canadian Labour Congress believes the Labour Education and Training Research Network is an absolutely vital instrument for addressing the hard questions in training that labour faces.

This paper examines the effects of union membership on completion rates among Canadian apprentices. Previous research by Holmes and Singh indicated that indenture class - among other variables - was an important predictor of completion probabilities of B.C. construction trade apprentices. To...

The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of financial capital markets in influencing demand for children in developing countries. As such it is also important to consider their contributions to current utility through child labour. The incorporation of this aspect provides an alternative...

For SHRM to advance, it must eventually be based on a theory that specifies not only concepts and relationships, but appropriate and high-quality measures to express and test them. For metrics to advance beyond simply a large inventory of potentially-useful indices with no integrating logic or...

This paper is focused on the emergent field of strategic international human resource management (SIHRM). We suggest that SIHRM is becoming an integrated intellectual map in terms of: (1) the typologies created; (2) the language used; and (3) its pedagogy. Does the way in which we articulate SIHRM...

La gestion des ressources humaines (GRH) est un domaine où les choses changent actuellement tres vite dans le monde, lui-même en plein changement economique et social, a cause de l'arrivee des nouvelles technologies de l'information et de la communication. Les entreprises sont plongees dans...

L'objectif de la recherche est de s'interesser a l'impact de l'arrivee du Fonds sur les rapports du travail des entreprises GL&V Fabrication inc., Mitallurgie Castech inc., Cartem inc. et Groupe Robert inc. Il s'agit de voir dans quelle mesure une institution syndicale comme le Fonds constitue...

Ce texte s'interroge sur la place donnee a la formation au sein des entreprises qui ont signe des ententes de longue duree, notamment en ce qui concerne les processus formels de negociation entre les syndicats et les employeurs. Ces nouvelles ententes que d'aucuns qualifient de convention...

The paper introduces a model of enterprise formationin a unionized economy with labor protection and wage bargaining. Enterprise formation is subject to future market risk and is shaped by labor market institutions in the post-entry stage. The predictions of the model are tested in cross-section...

Les pratiques de GRH developpees dans le secteur public francais puisent leur origine dans le contexte economique, politique et social de l'apres-guerre. Les relations du travail se sont construites essentiellement autour des principes du statut des personnels et de la mission de service public....