Labour market policy is about more than unemployment
The biggest gap in our current labour market policy is the lack of opportunities for life-long learning.
The biggest gap in our current labour market policy is the lack of opportunities for life-long learning.
In a time when it is clear that the need for asylum is greater than ever, the Canadian government defends its decade long record in making admission to Canada, temporarily or permanently, more difficult.
Government obsessions with keeping inflation low resulted in the relatively high unemployment rates of the 1980s and 1990s. And when unemployment is high, worker bargaining power is reduced.
Because of widespread consolidation in the food industry, farmers have little choice but to take the price being offered by the buyer, regardless of whether or not it covers their costs.
Policies that make good quality child care more affordable for families can increase women’s employment opportunities and change the way that the market rewards women’s work.
A key challenge for Canadians is to increase the number of highly skilled, highly productive, well paid job sought by the many young people leaving our post-secondary educational institutions.