Book Description
Concludes that inadequate skills utilization rather than skills shortages is the problem in Canada.
Author : Lindsay Redpath
Publisher : Population Research Laboratory, University of Alberta
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 20,90 MB
Release : 1993
Category : College graduates
ISBN :
Concludes that inadequate skills utilization rather than skills shortages is the problem in Canada.
Author : Danielle Juteau Lee
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 12,22 MB
Release : 2003-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780802084040
Social Differentiation examines the economic, political, and normatively defined relations that underlie the construction of social categories. Social differentiation, embedded in inequalities of power, status, wealth, and prestige, affects life chances of individuals as well as the allocation of resources and opportunities. Starting with a theoretical framework that challenges many traditional analyses, the contributors focus on four specific strands of social differentiation: gender, age, race/ethnicity, and locality. They explore the historically specific social practices, policies, and ideologies that produce distinct forms of inequality, in turn revealing and explaining such issues as the formation and maintenance of a gendered order; the privileging of prime-age workers; the penalties incurred by visible minorities in the labour market; the highly disadvantaged position of Aboriginals; and the economic decline of agriculture, resource, and fishing dependent regions. By paying special attention to political processes, norms, and representations, and by indicating how social policies shape economic functioning and relate to normative definitions, this book will interest policy-oriented researchers and decision-makers.
Author : Lesley Andres
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 20,64 MB
Release : 2010-10-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1442699841
Secondary school graduates of the late 1980s and early 1990s have found themselves coping with economic insecurity, social change, and workplace restructuring. Drawing on studies that have recorded the lives of young people in two countries for over fifteen years, The Making of a Generation offers unique insight into the hopes, dreams, and trajectories of a generation. Although children born in the 1970s were more educated than ever before, as adults they entered new labour markets that were de-regulated and precarious. Lesley Andres and Johanna Wyn discuss the consequences of education and labour policies in Canada and Australia, emphasizing their long-term impacts on health, well-being, and family formation. They conclude that these young adults bore the brunt of policies designed to bring about rapid changes in the nature of work. Despite their modest hopes and aspirations for security, those born in the 1970s became a vanguard generation as they negotiated the significant social and economic transformations of the 1990s.
Author : Peter Dwyer
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 28,95 MB
Release : 2004-11-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 1134516282
Youth, Education and Risk: Facing the Future provides a provocative and valuable insight into how the dramatic social and economic changes of the last twenty years have affected the lives of Western youth. Covering young people's attitudes towards relationships and health, the authors provide a comprehensive perspective on young people in Western society in the 1990s. The book reviews ten years of research, policy and practice as related to the 15-25 age group and compares data from the UK, Australia, the USA and Canada. It also argues for the need to develop new research and policy frameworks that are more in tune with the changed conditions of life for Western youth. The book sets out the conceptual basis for a new approach to youth and the practical implications for research, education and youth policy in the new millenium.
Author : Peter Cappelli
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 109 pages
File Size : 30,16 MB
Release : 2012-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1613630131
Peter Cappelli confronts the myth of the skills gap and provides an actionable path forward to put people back to work. Even in a time of perilously high unemployment, companies contend that they cannot find the employees they need. Pointing to a skills gap, employers argue applicants are simply not qualified; schools aren't preparing students for jobs; the government isn't letting in enough high-skill immigrants; and even when the match is right, prospective employees won't accept jobs at the wages offered. In this powerful and fast-reading book, Peter Cappelli, Wharton management professor and director of Wharton's Center for Human Resources, debunks the arguments and exposes the real reasons good people can't get hired. Drawing on jobs data, anecdotes from all sides of the employer-employee divide, and interviews with jobs professionals, he explores the paradoxical forces bearing down on the American workplace and lays out solutions that can help us break through what has become a crippling employer-employee stand-off. Among the questions he confronts: Is there really a skills gap? To what extent is the hiring process being held hostage by automated software that can crunch thousands of applications an hour? What kind of training could best bridge the gap between employer expectations and applicant realities, and who should foot the bill for it? Are schools really at fault? Named one of HR Magazine's Top 20 Most Influential Thinkers of 2011, Cappelli not only changes the way we think about hiring but points the way forward to rev America's job engine again.
Author : David Ashton
Publisher :
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 20,98 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Canada
ISBN :
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Publisher :
Page : 1292 pages
File Size : 13,79 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Municipal government publications
ISBN :
An indexing, abstracting and document delivery service that covers current Canadian report literature of reference value from government and institutional sources.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 25,73 MB
Release : 2011-09-15
Category :
ISBN : 9264115838
This 2011 edition of the OECD Employment Outlook highlights policy issues related to: the recent economic crisis and the adequacy of income support for the unemployed; social protection and labour markets in emerging economies; earnings volatility; and qualifications mismatch.
Author :
Publisher :
Page : 958 pages
File Size : 40,30 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Education
ISBN :
Author : Chris Warhurst
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 818 pages
File Size : 31,28 MB
Release : 2017-02-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0191628123
Skills and workforce development are at the heart of much research on work, employment, and management. But are they so important? To what extent can they make a difference for individuals, organizations, and nations? How are the supply and, more importantly, the utilization of skill, currently evolving? What are the key factors shaping skills trajectories of the future? This Handbook provides an authoritative consideration of issues such as these. It does so by drawing on experts in a wide range of disciplines including sociology, economics, labour/industrial relations, human resource management, education, and geography. The Handbook is relevant for all with an interest in the changing nature - and future - of work, employment, and management. It draws on the latest scholarly insights to shed new light on all the major issues concerning skills and training today. While written primarily by leading scholars in the field, it is equally relevant to policy makers and practitioners responsible for shaping the development of human capability today and into the future.