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Download full textNostrand, Howard Lee – 1978
A second series of discussions of American civic issues in the light of European experience is summarized. The overall topics were: the third age of life as a resource in a community, health care, western Eurpoean communism, labor-management co-determination, language education, and the question of whether youth hostels should be subsidized in…
Descriptors: Adult Development, Adult Education, Communism, Comparative Analysis
Alpert, William T., Ed.; Woodbury, Stephen A., Ed. – 2000
This book contains 14 original research chapters on various aspects of the employee benefits systems of Canada and the United States. Following an introduction by William Alpert and Stephen Woodbury and an overview chapter, "Does the Composition of Pay Matter?" (Sherwin Rosen), Part 1 of the book consists of three chapters that treat the…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women, Employer Employee Relationship
Houseman, Susan, Ed.; Nakamura, Alice, Ed. – 2001
This is the second of two volumes of selected papers presented at the 1996 conference "Changes in Working Hours in Canada and the United States." Eleven chapters explore an expanded set of working-time issues, which may be loosely grouped under these two topics: working time over the life cycle and nonstandard work arrangements.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Career Development, Career Education, Comparative Analysis
Turner, John A., Ed. – 2001
This document's seven papers examine compensation and employment risk in the United States and Canada. "Introduction" (John A. Turner) discusses compensation risk bearing in labor markets. "Wage and Job Risk for Workers" (John A. Turner) explores the problems of macroeconomic instability, job turnover, job and earnings…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Definitions, Delivery Systems, Economic Change
