This paper reports research examining differences in the earnings distributions of unionized and non-unionized workers and the impact of union status on the likelihood of a worker being in each region of the earnings distribution. Average earnings of unionized workers are shown to be higher than...

The duties imposed on employers to reasonably accommodate employees in Canada arise directly out of anti-discrimination law, as requirements of obligations to afford equal opportunity without discrimination. This is unlike the United States and the European Union, where duties to accommodate...

This article forms part of a tribute to Professor Harry Arthurs on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Over the past two decades, Professor Arthurs has argued that the state's failure to regulate to improve working conditions may stem in part from enhanced capital mobility, but also arises from...

In this article, we consider whether corporate codes of conduct adopted by multinational enterprises (MNEs) or international framework agreements (IFAs) to which global union federations (GUFs) and MNEs are party could be enforced under Canadian domestic law. We consider first what Canadian...

This Article considers how far labor obligations in trade agreements extend into state regulation of national economies, and more specifically what it means for state action or inaction to be “in a manner affecting trade” so as to engage those obligations. This question is key to defining...

Globalization has led states and civil society groups to seek new and more effective governance in international labor law. The United States and Canada have each concluded a path-breaking, controversial and still-evolving series of international trade-related labor agreements with their trading...

The new Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) has become central to monetary theory and policy. A seemingly benign NKPC prediction is that trend shocks dominate price level fluctuations at all forecast horizons. Since the NKPC cycle of the U.S. GDP deflator peaks at each of the last seven NBER dated...

Distribution-free techniques of statistical inference are developed for the cumulative coefficients of variation of an income distribution, thus allowing one to test for inequality dominance when Lorenz curves cross. The full covariance structure of the cumulative sample means and variances is...

The new Keynesian Phillips curve (NKPC) has become central to monetary theory and policy. A seemingly benign NKPC prediction is that trend shocks dominate price level fluctuations at all forecast horizons. Since the NKPC cycle of the U.S. GDP deflator peaks at each of the last seven NBER dated...