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Jack's Jottings
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By JACKRIDDELL
MPP Huron -Middlesex
The Paris based
Organization for Economic
Co-operation and
Development has recently
published a study, "Man-
power and Employment,
Problems and Prospects,"
by R.A. Jenness, who is
currently Senior Policy
Adviser to the Chairman of
the Economic Council of
Canada.
This is the first time a
study by a Canadian
economist has ever been
published by the OECD. The
original submission was part
of background documen-
tation for a meeting of OECD
experts on "Structural
Determinants of
Employment and Unem-
ployment" in March 1977.
Basically, the study is an
ovelrall review of manpower
policies which are followed
in the major OECD coun-
tries, including Canada. It
takes into account a number
of important factors in-
cluding insurance
programs, income security
and unemployment. There is
also .some discussion of
labour market problems
which are expected to
develop in the 1980's.
In the majority of Western
European countries, man-
power policies are ad-
ministered through a
combination of public and
private intervention.
Employers, through their
associations, or as a result of
regulations, surtaxes or
other systems, are directly
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involved and responsible,
together with unions, for the
administration and funding
of most manpower policies.
On the other hand, in the
case of Japan's modernized
industrial sector, employers,
as part of a reciprocal
lifetime commitment to their
employees, bear virtually all
the costs of occupational
training and mobility. and of
keeping unemployment
rates low.
Here in Canada, we are, as
you know, at the other ex-
treme. Almost all manpower
initiatives involve govern-
ment programs which are
funded from general tax
revenue's.
Throughout the world.,
certainly • in the OECD
countries, one of the
hallmarks of the 1960's and
early 1970's has been a major
shift in family expenditure
patterns, away from
manufactured products and
.foodstuffs towards personal
services and travel or
towards collective goods
such as education and
hospital medical services.
This period has also, of
course, seen the rapidly
increasing participation of
women in the workforce
throughout the OECD area.
• Of course, this increasing
role of women has broadened
their opportunities, and
contributed substantially to
rising family incomes.
However. these benefits
have not been achieved
without considerable
sacrifice.
Mr. Jenness cites a
UNESCO report - which
shows that when both
housework and childcare are
included, a wage -employed
wife works a 3 -hour longer
day that a wife who stays
home. She works over one
hour per day longer than do
employed men. Moreover -
and very significant - males
still enjoy preferential
treatment not only in em-
ployment and wages but also
in their prior educational
opportunities.
In this respect, Canada has
a better record than many
countries. According to
statistics. - in Norway; the
United Kingdom, Germany
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of All Types a percent of students in higher
yP = education are women. Here
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in the United States.
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OECD • countries have en-
joyed industrial productivity
increases of over four per-
cent annually. However.
when the growing service -
orientation in family ex-
p t3 itures is taken into
account, it is not at all clear
that their own demands for
manufactured goods will
grow fast enough to keep
pace with their growing
labour forces. -
If this proves, to be the
case, the implocation is that
most OECD nations in-
cluding Canada will be
forced to broaden their
reliance on international
trade and look to wider
markets for their industrial -
output.
The conclusion reached by
Mr. Jenness is that with the
evolution to service-oriented
economies, increasing
numbers of the labour force
will have non -permanent
jobs, either from their own
inclinations. the dictates of
consumer demands or
simply the competitive
pressures of wage costs..
Obviously, services cannot
be stockpiled as can
material goods; and twiny
demands for services in-
volve daily, weekly or
seasonaly peaks or troughs
which in turn result in
corresponding ebbs and
flows of jobs.
Therefore, as basic wage
rates rise, entrepreneurs
will almost certainly find it
more economical to use part-
time help, or to lease
workers in order to avoid the
overhead costs of regular
employees.
Who winds up in these
"secondary jIy)s'" Usually
those with the least
bargaining power in the
labour market,• the least
interest in a permanent
career, or the least qualified.
Often this means women,
particularly married
women, and young people.
Mr. Jenness has been a
senior Economic Council
staff member since 1973. He
directed the last three
Annual Reviews, and before
that the Council study
"People and Jobs." '
In addition, he has a long-
standing history of working
with the federal government
of Canada,' including five
years as Director of Plan-
ning and Evaluation for the
Department of Manpower
and Immigration.
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