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Faculty

Morley Gunderson

Professor, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources,
and Dept of Economics
CIBC Chair in Youth Employment
E-mail: morley@chass.utoronto.ca

Click here for a full CV (in MS Word), including all publications.

Click here for details of the Morley Gunderson Prize. This prize was established in 1997 as a tribute to Morley Gunderson's 10 years as Director of the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources.

In 2008 Professor Gunderson was inducted as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada for his work as an internationally recognized scholar whose research, institution building and teaching has been pioneering in transforming the field of Industrial Relations in Canada from one that was formerly descriptive and institutional to one that uses rigorous quantitative and analytical techniques.

 




Brief CV

1967 B.A. Queen's University
1970 M.A. Wisconsin
1971 Ph.D. Wisconsin
1985-1997 Director of Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto
1997- Ph.D. Co-ordinator, Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources
currently Member, Editorial Boards of International Journal of Manpower, Journal of Labor Research
currently Co-editor, Labour Arbitration Yearbook
currently Member, Editorial Committee of the Canadian Policy Research Network
1999- CIBC Chair in Youth Employment
2002 Industrial Relations Research Association Excellence in Education Award in Labour
2002- Statistics Canada Advisory Committee on Labour Statistics

Current Research Interests

Morley's current research areas include: the labour market impacts of trade liberalization and globalization; gender discrimination, including pay equity; youth unemployment; retirement and pension issues; strikes; and workers' compensation.

Recent Publications

“How Academic Research Shapes Labour and Social Policy,” Journal of Labor Research, forthcoming.

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

“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, forthcoming (with M. Campolieti and R. Gomez).

“Upskilling in the Canadian Workforce: Investments in Workplace Training,” Ottawa : Human Resources Development Canada, forthcoming.

“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 R. Gomez).

Labour Market Economics: Theory, Evidence and Policy in Canada, 6th edition, Toronto : McGraw-Hill, 2007 (with D. Benajamin, C. Riddell and T. Lemieux) 636 pages.

“Labor Supply Decisions of Disabled Male Workers,” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 28, No. 3 (Summer 2007) 502-514 (with M. Campolieti and H. Krashinsky).

“Incentive Effects of Occupational Pension Plans,” Toronto : Ontario Expert Commission on Pensions, 2007.

“Challenges Facing Youths in the Labour Market,” Ottawa : Human Resources Development Canada, 2007.

“The Incidence and Determinants of Training Among Older Workers: Analysis Using WES,” Ottawa : Human Resources Development Canada, 2007 (with T. Fang)

“Minimum Wages: Issues and Options for Ontario,” Toronto : Ontario Ministry of Finance, 2007.

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

“Male-Female Wage Differentials: How Can that Be?” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 39, No. 1 (February 2006) 1-21.

“Minimum Wage Impacts from a Pre-Specified Research Design: Canada 1981-97,” Industrial Relations, Vol. 45, No. 2 (April 2006) 195-216 (with Mike Campolieti and Chris Riddell).

“Two Faces of Union Voice in the Public Sector,” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 2005) 393-414. Reprinted in What Do Unions Do ?: A Twenty-Year Perspective. Edited by James Bennett and Bruce Kaufman. Transactions Publishers, 2007, pp. 401-422.

“Mimimum Wage Impacts on Schooling-Employment Outcomes,” Journal of Labor Research, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Summer 2005) 533-45 (with M. Campolieti and T. Fang)

“Minimum Wage Impacts on Employment Transitions of Youths: 1993-99,” Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 38, No. 1 (February 2005) 81-104 (with Mike Campolieti and Tony Fang).

“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, R. Gomez and N. Meltz).

Courses Taught at the CIRHR

IRE 3002/3003/3005/3006 Research Seminars and Workshops for PhDs

 



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