Labour Market Economics - Hardcover

This market leading text has undergone a both a major update and a pedagogical facelift. In preparing for this new edition the authors combed through each chapter and made the updating of information a major focus. They have also taken major steps in preparing the material in a more student friendly fashion. They have built in chapter summaries, provided practice questions and reduced the number of bibliographic entries. The addition of a student study guide provides even stronger student ties in the 5th edition.

Morley Gunderson holds the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce Chair in Youth Employment at the University of Toronto, where he is a Professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations (Director from 1985-97) and the Department of Economics. He is also a Research Associate of the Institute of Policy Analysis, the Centre for International Studies, and the Institute for Human Development, Life Course and Aging, all at the University of Toronto, as well as an Adjunct Scientist at the Institute for Work and Health. He has a BA in Economics from Queen's University (1967), an MA in Industrial Relations (1969) and a Ph.D. in Economics (1971) from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He has been a Visiting Scholar at various institutions: the International Institute for Labour Research in Geneva, Switzerland (1977/78); the National Bureau of Economic Research at Stanford University (1984/85 and 1991-93); the North America Forum at the Institute for International Studies at Stanford (Summer 1994-96); and the Hoover Institution at Stanford (1998/99). His publications include books on Union-Management Relations in Canada, 4th ed. 2000; Women in the Canadian Labour Market, 1998; Forging Business-Labour Partnerships: The Emergence of Sector Councils in Canada, 1998; Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, 4th ed., 1998; Comparable Worth and Gender Discrimination: An International Perspective, 1995; Pay Equity, 1990; Women and Labour Market Poverty, 1990; and Economics of Poverty and Income Distribution, 1983. He has published over 70 articles in academic journals and over 70 chapters in edited volumes on various topics: gender discrimination and comparable worth; the ageing workforce, pensions and mandatory retirement; youth employment; public sector wage determination; the determinants and impact of immigration; the causes and consequences of strikes; childcare arrangements and labour market behaviour; workers' compensation and reasonable accommodation; labour market adjustment and training; volunteer labour supply and the impact of trade liberalisation and globalisation on labour markets, labour policy, labour standards, industrial relations, human resource management and workplace practices. Currently, Professor Gunderson is on the editorial board of the Journal of Labor Research and the International Journal of Manpower, and he is co-editor of the Labour Arbitration Yearbook. He has been a member of the Executive Board of the Industrial Relations Research Association and an advisor/consultant to various organizations: Labour Canada; Ontario Ministry of Labour; Statistics Canada; Abella Commission on Employment Equity; Canadian Human Rights Commission; Ontario Task Forces on Hours of Work and Overtime and on Mandatory Retirement; Ontario Pay Equity Commission; BC Task Force on Employment and Training; Ontario Workers' Compensation Board; Canadian Policy Research Network; Federal Task Force on Working Time and the Distribution of Work; Ontario Royal Commission on Workers' Compensation; Human Resources Development Canada; BC Royal Commission on Workers Compensation; the North America Forum at Stanford; the International Labour Organisation and the Harvard Institute for International Development.