Labor Standards in the United States and Canada.

Autor/inn/en	Block, Richard N.; Roberts, Karen; Clarke, R. Oliver
Titel	Labor Standards in the United States and Canada.
Quelle	(2003), (184 Seiten)Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; Monographie
ISBN	0-88099-235-2
Schlagwörter	Adult Education; Collective Bargaining; Developed Nations; Economic Factors; Employer Employee Relationship; Equal Opportunities (Jobs); Foreign Countries; International Trade; Labor Conditions; Labor Economics; Labor Legislation; Labor Standards; Occupational Safety and Health; Racial Discrimination; Salary Wage Differentials; Sex Fairness; Unions; Workers Compensation; Canada; United States + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Tarifverhandlung; Developed countries; Industriestaat; Industrieland; Ökonomischer Faktor; Equal opportunity; Equal opportunities; Job; Jobs; Chancengleichheit; Beruf; Ausland; Trade; International relations; Handel; Internationale Beziehungen; Arbeitsbedingungen; Arbeitsökonomie; Labor law; Arbeitsrecht; Occupational safety; Arbeitssicherheit; Racial bias; Rassismus; Sexualaufklärung; Lohnkostenzuschuss; Kanada; USA
Abstract	This volume attempts to measure and quantify 10 labor standards in the United States and Canada. Its two purposes are to begin to fill the gap in the research by developing a measure of labor standards that can be applied across countries and to apply that measure to the United States (U.S.) and Canada to test a popular hypothesis that Canada has higher labor standards than the U.S. Chapter 1 addresses labor standards and international trade, as well as the social contexts and why Canada and the U.S. may diverge. Chapter 2 reviews the economics and the institutional literature on the relationship between labor standards and trade, both generally and with specific attention to the U.S. and Canada. Chapter 3 provides definitions of the labor standards discussed. Chapter 4 discusses the data and methodology used to compare the labor standards in the two countries. It explains the weights and subindex values created for each of the 10 labor standards analyzed. Chapter 5 presents results of the comparison, through text and tables, which indicate that, overall, labor standards are higher in Canada than in the U.S. Chapter 6 summarizes results and presents conclusions. Appendixes include a list of 188 references and an index. (YLB)
Anmerkungen	W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research, 300 South Westnedge Avenue, Kalamazoo, MI 49007 (ISBN 0-88099-236-0 (cloth) $40; ISBN 0-88099-235-2 (paper) $18). Tel: 616-343-4330; Fax: 616-343-7310; e-mail: publications@we.upjohninst.org, Web site: http://www.upjohninst.org.
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