Overview
Every developed country has a public employment service that connects job seekers with employers through information, placement, and training support services.In Federalism in Actionassesses how Canada's public employment service is performing after responsibility was transferred from the federal government to provinces, territories, and Aboriginal organizations between 1995 and 2015. Drawing upon over twenty years of data, Wood reveals the governance choices provinces made, the reasons behind these choices, and the outcomes they achieved. Provincial decisions regarding employment programming is an important public policy issue about which little is known, and even less understood within the context of Aboriginal communities. Federalism in Action includes analytical comparisons of Canada's employment programming with the United States, Australia, and the European Union, as well as information from insightful interviews with key informants from every province. In firmly placing Canada within the extensive international literature on the governance of welfare-to-work policies, this book makes an important new contribution to research.
Full Product Details
Author: Donna E. Wood ,
Philip Girard ,
R. Blake Brown
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Volume: IX
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.780kg
ISBN: 9781487503109
ISBN 10: 1487503105
Pages: 432
Publication Date: 04 May 2018
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Donna E. Wood presents a comprehensive, accurate, and reliable account of public employment services across the country, including all provinces, Aboriginal governance, as well as direct federal interventions and services. Wood has produced 'the book' about public employment services in Canada. - Alain Noel, Departement de science politique, Universite de Montreal Well laid out and strongly crafted, Federalism in Action makes a significant contribution to our understanding of labour market programming and will be of interest to a wide range of scholars in the fields of public administration, public policy, Canadian politics, and also comparative politics. - Mario Levesque, Department of Politics and International Relations, Mount Allison University
Donna E. Wood presents a comprehensive, accurate, and reliable account of public employment services across the country, including all provinces, Aboriginal governance, as well as direct federal interventions and services. Wood has produced 'the book' about public employment services in Canada. - Alain Noel, Departement de science politique, Universite de Montreal
Author Information
Donna E. Wood is an adjunct assistant professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Victoria.
