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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
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
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
Robins, Philip K., Ed.; Spiegelman, Robert G., Ed. – 2001
This book contains eight papers examining the evidence from three field experiences in Illinois, Pennsylvania, and Washington that were conducted to identify the impact of reemployment bonuses on the following indicators characterizing the unemployment insurance (UI) program: weeks of UI receipt during the benefit year; dollars of UI received…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Comparative Analysis, Cost Effectiveness, Definitions
2001
This document contains three papers on workplace learning issues and human resource development. "The Impact of Self-Management on Training Participation" (Jasper B. van Loo, Andries de Guip, Jo G.L. Thijssen) combines HRD and economic theory to in an attempt to explain the relationship between self-management and training participation.…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Corporate Education, Economic Factors, Economics
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
