ECO244Y5 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Legal Tests, Labor Management Relations Act Of 1947, Independent Contractor
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Answer only three of the following four questions. Also explain how and why the composition of employment has shifted between goods and services over the past few decades. Outline the definition of part-time work used by statistics canada and explain the implications of the trends described above for changes in the prevalence of part-time work in canada. Due to rising labour force participation by women and a trend toward earlier retirement by men. 2. productivity growth is higher in goods industries than in service industries which are more labor- intensive and are less easily replaced by technology. 3. demand for labour declined in canadian manufacturing has shifted to countries with lower labour cost. Part-time work a person who works less than 30 hours a week at their major job. Implication lower compensation is seen as a threat to employment and compensation of full- timers and part-time workers are more difficult to organize.
