This synthesis reviews the evidence from an important body of Canadian research using microdata available through the Canadian Research Data Centre Network to examine four hypotheses often proposed to explain the persistent gender wage gap. The results show that the different educational and professional choices that women make is the most important explanatory variable of the wage gap. However...

When animals are transported and pass through customs, some of them may have dangerous infectious diseases. Typically, due to the cost of testing, not all animals are tested: a reasonable selection must be made. How to test effectively whilst avoiding costly disease outbreaks? First, we extend a model proposed in the literature for the detection of invasive species to suit our purpose, and we d...

Majority of the studies reported in e-government literature identify the challenges involved in any e-government implementation from technical or project implementation perspective. In contrast, in this study, we take the citizen centric perspective to identify the factors and issues that influence the success of e-government implementation at local level. In this paper, we report the findings ...

One of greatest problems in building I*net applications is the lack of a model that matches the Object-Oriented Analysis and the particular characteristics of I*net applications. Traditional analysis’ methods often fail in predicting performances, in creating screen layouts, and in some other important operations: there is a traceability gap between analysts’ requirements and technological cons...

Business organisations all over the world are striving hard to evolve strategies to survive in the new era of competition ushered in by globalisation. Global Supply Chain Management (GSCM) is one such strategy. In this paper, various countries across the world have been separated on the basis of various regions and development in their respective economies. To compare the degree of implementati...