Rafael Gomez Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources E-mail: ralph.gomez@utoronto.ca Click here for a full CV (in pdf), including all publications. Brief CV Current Research Interests Recent Publications Courses Taught at the CIRHR

Brief CV

Current Research Interests

Rafael's current research areas include: the wage and pay structure impacts of unions on CEO and executive pay; union and non-union voice at work; demographic issues related to the workplace and cross country growth; and local employment and economic development.

Recent Publications

“Labour Adjustment Implications of Offshoring of Business Services,” In Offshore Outsourcing: Capitalizing on Lessons Learned. Edited by Daniel Treffler, forthcoming (with Morley Gunderson).

“Are Young People's Voices Changing? Youth Preferences for Voice in the Workplace in Canada,” In Young Workers in the Global Economy. Edited by Gregory DeFritas. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2008 (with M. Campolieti and M. Gunderson).

“Demographic Age Structure and Economic Performance Across Countries” Review of Income and Wealth, (2008) With Pablo Hernandez de Cos.

“The Importance of Being Mature: The Effect of Demographic Ageing on Global Per-Capita GDP,” Journal of Population Economics, (2008). With Pablo Hernandez de Cos.

“Does the Microfinance lending Model Actually Work? A Test of Peer Group Lending Using Canadian Microfinance-Data” Whitehead Journal of Diplomacy and International Relations. (2008) With Eric Santor.

"Causas y consecuencias de participación en actividades de voluntariado: Una perspectiva canadiense" Revista de Economia Social. Nº 46, (febrero de 2008), p.1-8 ISSN 1137-4748. With Morley Gunderson

The Diffusion of Workplace Voice and High-Commitment Human Resource Management Practices in Britain, 1984-1998', Industrial and Corporate Change, Vol. 16, No. 3 (Fall, 2007) 395-426. With Alex Bryson, Tobias Kretschmer and Paul Willman.

“The Long Goodbye: The Rise and Fall of Representative Voice in Britain” International Journal of Human Resource Management, Vol. 18, No.7 (Fall, 2007)1318-1334. With Alex Bryson and Paul Willman.

“Say What: Employee Voice in Canada,” In What Workers Say: Employee Voice in the Anglo American World. Edited by R. Freeman, P. Boxall and P. Hayes, Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2007, pp.49-71 (with Mike Campolieti and M. Gunderson).

“Barriers to the Inter-Provincial Mobility of Labour,” Ottawa : Industry Canada and Human Resources Development Canada,” 2007 (With M. Gunderson).

“The Sound of Silence: Why Do Some Employers Fail to Offer Employee Voice?” Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 4, No. 2. (May, 2006) 8-24. With Alex Bryson and Paul Willman.

“Voice at Work…What Do Employers Want?” Socio-Economic Review, Vol. 4, No.2. (May, 2006) 1-7. With Alex Bryson and Paul Willman.

“Why Have Workers Stopped Joining Unions?” British Journal of Industrial Relations Vol.43, No. 1 (March, 2005) 67-92. With Alex Bryson.

“Youth-Adult Differences in the Demand for Unionization: Are American, British and Canadian Workers All that Different?” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Winter 2005) 155-68 (with A. Bryson, M. Gunderson and N. Meltz).

“Non-Standard and Vulnerable Workers: A Case of Mistaken Identity?” Canadian Labour and Employment Law Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2 (2005) 267-283. With Morley Gunderson.

Courses Taught at the CIRHR

Undergraduate

WDW 367 - Compensation (Woodsworth College)

Graduate

IRE 2002 - Research Methods

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