Bureaucratic Manoeuvres
Bureaucratic Manoeuvres

Author: John Grundy

Publisher: University of Toronto Press

Published: 2019-01-01

Total Pages: 178

ISBN-13: 1487504470

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In Bureaucratic Manoeuvres, John Grundy examines profound transformations in the governance of unemployment in Canada. While policy makers previously approached unemployment as a social and economic problem to be addressed through macroeconomic policies, recent labour market policy reforms have placed much more emphasis on the supposedly deficient employability of the unemployed themselves, a troubling shift that deserves close, critical attention. Tracing a behind-the-scenes history of public employment services in Canada, Bureaucratic Manoeuvres shows just how difficult it has been for administrators and frontline staff to govern unemployment as a problem of individual employability. Drawing on untapped government records, it sheds much-needed light on internal bureaucratic struggles over the direction of labour market policy in Canada and makes a key contribution to Canadian political science, economics, public administration, and sociology.

Improving the Odds
Improving the Odds

Author: Cameron Crawford

Publisher: North York, Ont. : Institut Roeher = Roeher Institute

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 250

ISBN-13:

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This research on employment programs for people with disabilities draws on focus group sessions, specially designed & administered surveys, interviews with employers, and analysis of several of Statistics Canada's large population surveys. Chapter 1 describes the employment situation of people with disabilities and chapter 2 explores the intergovernmental, funding, & program context for addressing the low employment of people with disabilities. Chapters 3 to 10 look at a range of measures needed for participation in education, training, & employment and key issues that people with disabilities are encountering related to these measures. The measures include labour market integration programs, assessment & counselling services, labour market information services, education & training programs, disability supports, financial & technical supports, general community employment measures & opportunities, human rights and anti-discrimination measures, and supports for employers. The final chapters summarize the findings and suggest some potential solutions to further the employment of people with disabilities.

Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada
Longitudinal Survey of Immigrants to Canada

Author:

Publisher:

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13:

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By examining newcomers' progress over time, the LSIC affords the possibility of assisting researchers and policy-makers to go beyond existing descriptions of immigrant integration outcomes to an examination of how newcomers achieve these outcomes -- in essence, the "how" and "why" dimensions. While the full value of the survey will be reached when the three waves of data collection are completed, this first wave of data provides important benchmark information. The focus of this publication is on the early settlement experiences of immigrants, from pre-migration to the first six months after arrival. First an overview of the LSIC population is provided, looking at both pre-migration characteristics as well as those at arrival. This is followed by a comprehensive look at the first six months of the settlement process, looking at things such as health, housing and mobility; education and training taken since arrival; employment, income and the general perception of the immigrant's settlement experience. Finally, a more in-depth look at problems and difficulties newcomers experience in four key areas of integration is presented: accessing health services, finding housing, accessing education and training, and finding employment. Challenges to integration are examined in terms of what help was needed, received and from whom, or needed and not received.