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P15. Family Status Discrimination: The Never-Ending Story, Christina Iannozzi
P15. Family Status Discrimination: The Never-Ending Story, Christina Iannozzi
Western Research Forum
The idea of work-life balance has received increasing attention from media, government, unions, and academics in recent years. This is due to the significant changes in the nature of the family and of roles within family. An interdisciplinary approach can explain the societal context that has prompted a rise in family status accommodation claims. Most notably, women have entered the paid workforce in unprecedented numbers and demographic shifts have created a growing need for eldercare.
Over the past two decades, divergent approaches to family status discrimination in the employment context have developed in Canada. The central dispute appears to be …
Recruitment And Retention Of Immigrants In A Global Labour Market: Implications For Policy, Christopher Robinson
Recruitment And Retention Of Immigrants In A Global Labour Market: Implications For Policy, Christopher Robinson
Western Migration Conference Series
Bio:
Chris Robinson studied economics at the London School of Economics and the University of Chicago, and has been a faculty member at the University of Western Ontario since 1977. His research has focused on human capital and wage issues including human capital specificity, labour supply, migration, and unions and he has published a wide range of articles on these topics in scholarly journals. From 1993 to 2003 he served as associate editor of the Journal of
Labor Economics. From 2001 to 2010 he held the CIBC Chair in Human Capital and
Productivity at the University of Western Ontario …