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This valuable guide for policy-makers, an output of the ILO Interdepartmental Project on Equality for Women in Employment, highlights the advantages and importance of comparable worth for evaluating jobs and setting fair pay differentials. It also indicates the need for equal opportunity policies, and legislation against discrimination in recruitment and promotion, in order to reduce the gender pay gap.

Estudio de la discriminacion de la mujer en el mercado laboral en canada, mediante el examen de los modelos teoricos utilizados para analizar este tema y las tecnicas de medicion empleadas para evaluar las diferencias salariales y la productividad.

Market leading,"Labour Market Economics"balances the right theoretical coverage with Canadian policy issues. The pedagogy focuses on worked examples, extensive problem material, clear figure captions and a glossary. The text provides students with the tools they need for critical thinking about labour market problems. Canadian labour issues are discussed within the context of a more general theoretical and empirical framework applicable to the labour problems of most developed countries.Thomas Lemieux from the University of British Columbia joins the author team for the sixth edition of the text.

This paper uses pooled 1971, 1981, and 1986 Canadian census data to evaluate the extent to which (1) the earnings of Canadian immigrants at the time of immigration fall short of the earnings of comparable Canadian-born individuals, and (2) immigrants' earnings grow more rapidly over time than those of the Canadian-born. Variations in the labor market assimilation of immigrants according to their gender and country of origin are also analyzed. The results suggest that recent immigrant cohorts have had more difficulty being assimilated into the Canadian labor market than earlier ones, an apparent consequence of recent changes in Canadian immigration policy, labor market discrimination against visible minorities, and the prolonged recession of the early 1980s.