The 1997 Human Rights Tribunal decision on "systemic" racial discrimination at Health Canada, specifically addressing "glass-ceiling" barriers to the promotion of visible minorities to senior management, provides an effective illustration of the subtle and elusive nature of this form of...

The European social-welfare model differs from the North American individualistic model in the patterns, more than the overall extent, of ethnic inclusion and exclusion. Focussing on foreigners in Germany and immigrants in Canada as illustrative cases, conventional earnings decomposition...

In Canada, most racial minorities have lower rates of unionization than do members of the majority workforce. Data from the Survey of Labour and Income Dynamics (N = 32,634) show that racial minority immigrants assimilate into unionization over time. However, unionization reduces net minority...