| Description |
1 online resource (247 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Contents -- Introduction: Towards a Research Program in Education and Training -- Part 1: What Skills Matter in the Economy? Economic Approaches -- 1 Education, Skills, and Labour Market Outcomes: Exploring the Linkages in Canada -- 2 Education and Technological Revolutions: The Role of the Social Sciences and the Humanities in the Knowledge-Based Economy -- Part 2: Achieving Equity: Three Analyses of Outcomes -- 3 What Are Canadians Doing after School: An Analysis of Post-school Training Activity -- 4 The Post-secondary Education of Disadvantaged Adults -- 5 What Outcomes Matter to You? Exploring Welfare Policy and Programs from the Perspective of Low-Income Women -- Part 3: Policy and Practice: Case Studies Linking Education and Work -- 6 Policy, Rhetoric, and Educational Outcomes: Interpreting Skills Now! -- 7 Working Outcomes in the Classroom: A Case Study of Applied Academics in British Columbia -- 8 Co-op Education: Tensions and Outcomes of Experiential Learning -- Conclusion: Learning from Research Networks: The Western Research Network on Education and Training, 1996-2001 -- Contributors |
| Summary |
Educational Outcomes for the Canadian Workplace explores how educational programs are changing, which skills matter in the economy, and how policy has responded to the educational and economic pressures of the 1990s |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- Canada
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Labor supply -- Effect of education on -- Canada -- Statistics
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Education -- Economic aspects -- Canada
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Education -- Economic aspects
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Labor supply -- Effect of education on
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Canada
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| Genre/Form |
Statistics
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Rubenson, Kjell
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| ISBN |
9781442674295 |
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1442674296 |
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