Contents

• Introduction
  Norene Pupo

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• Open statement by Canadian scholars on unionization and the economic and social well-being of Canadians
  Canadian Scholars

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Section 1: Reviewing the Layne-Farrar hypothesis about collective bargaining and unemployment in Canada

• Comments on "An Empirical Assessment of the Employee Free Choice Act: The Economic Implications," by Ann Layne-Farrar
  Susan Johnson

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• Faulty methodology generates faulty results: Comments on the paper entitled  An Empirical Assessment of the Employee Free Choice Act: The Economic Implications," by Anne Layne-Farrar, March 2009
  Pierre Fortin

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• Further tests of the link between unionization, unemployment, and employment: Findings from Canadian national and provincial data
  Garry Sran & Jim Stanford

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Section 2: Focus on Québec´s industrial relations experience and its relevance to labour legislation

• The sky is not falling: Unionization, Wal-Mart and first contract arbitration in Canada
  Gregor Murray & Joelle Cuillerier

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• The Québec case: Is there a secret?
  Mona-Josée Gagnon & Thomas Collombat

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Section 3: Commentaries on collective bargaining and Canada´s economic and social well-being

• Fairness and opportunity for choice: The Employee Free Choice Act and the Canadian model
  Sara Slinn & Richard W. Hurd

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• Should Congress pass the Employee Free Choice Act? Some neighborly advice
  John Godard, Joseph B. Rose & Sara Slinn

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• Provincial unionization, unemployment and productivity
  Erin Weir

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• Labour law and the new inequality
  Michael Lynk

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• An annotated bibliography of recent research on labour relations policy, unionization, and Canada-U.S. labour market performance
  Garry Sran

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