Labour Market Polarization and Social Policy Reform explores the dimensions of polarization and the challenges it poses for social policy reform, presenting the most recent evidence on polarization, poverty, and inequality in Canada and other nations.

Since 9/11 there have been many changes to the external environment of Canadian immigration, a number of criticisms of current immigration policy in Canada, and several proposals for dealing with current labour market needs and settlement patterns of immigrants to Canada. In Canadian Immigration Policy for the 21st Century the authors examine the issues raised by these concerns. the role of immigration in meeting Canada's demographic and labour market needs, decentralization of immigration policy with special focus on the Quebec perspective and the recent Manitoba experience, policy responses...

Alarms have been increasingly raised about the declining quality of Canadian universities given years of chronic under-funding, overcrowding, and dramatically rising tuition fees and student debt levels. This volume offers a number of reform proposals to address these issues in Canadian post-secondary education. Topics include North American trends and key issues facing American higher education; funding and regulatory incentives; the struggle between accessibility and quality; the links between universities, innovation and economic growth; the 2004 UK Higher Education Act; demographic needs...

Offers reform proposals to address various issues in Canadian post-secondary education. This book contains topics including North American trends and key issues facing American higher education, funding and regulatory incentives; the struggle between accessibility and quality; and the links between universities, innovation and economic growth.

The papers in this volume examine the political and economic context informing the 2009 budget and provide a quantitative evaluation of the impact of the overall budget package on the Canadian economy. Special attention is devoted to topics such as the economic stimulus and stabilization provisions in the budget, specific tax policy changes, financial market provisions, fiscal sustainability of the budget deficits, cost-sharing and federal-provincial fiscal relations, federal equalization transfers since the O'Brien Report, Canada's declining social safety net and EI reform, social policy and...