Published 2011
by Nova Science Publishers in Hauppauge, NY .
Written in English
Edition Notes
Includes index.
| Statement | editor, Samir Amine |
| Classifications | |
|---|---|
| LC Classifications | HD5706 .L2183 2011 |
| The Physical Object | |
| Pagination | p. cm. |
| ID Numbers | |
| Open Library | OL25253020M |
| ISBN 10 | 9781620812990 |
| LC Control Number | 2012009333 |
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Racial discrimination continues to be in the labor market. An experiment carried out in Chicago and Boston during and shows that resumes with “white-sounding” names, whether male or female, were much more likely to result in call backs for interviews than were those with “black-sounding” names (even though the resumes were. But public policy faces serious challenges in today’s labor market: low workforce participation and high unemployment among many Americans, technological innovation, globalization, persistent poverty, education and training, and public policy’s unintended consequences are just a : Hardcover. Reducing Labour Market Inequality, Three Steps At A Time There is a complex range of causes of Canada’s increased income inequality. They range from changes in how economic activity is organized and located internationally to domestic policy decisions. Some, likeFile Size: KB. Chapter 1 provides an overview of the book, and this concept is introduced as encompassing “not only the direct and readily visible ways in which states affect income inequality, such as taxation and cash transfers but also the indirect or more opaque ways, including policies affecting education and the labour market and, more generally Cited by: 1.
