Authors

Research Director
Keith Banting
Keith Banting is a Professor in the Queen’s University Department of Political Studies and School of Public Policy and holder of the Queen’s Research Chair in Public Policy.
Robin Boadway
The Design of Employment Insurance in a Federation
Robin Boadway is a Professor of Economics at Queen's University.
Allison Bramwell
Training Policy for the 21st Century: Decentralization and Workforce Development Programs for Unemployed Working-Age Adults in Canada
Allison Bramwell is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Program on Globalization and Regional Innovation Systems at the University of Toronto’s Munk School of Global Affairs.
Sujit Choudhry
The Impact of Regionally Differentiated Entitlement to EI on Charter-Projected Canadians
Sujit Choudhry is Professor of Law, New York University School of Law. He previously taught for a dozen years at the Faculty Law, University of Toronto, where at the time of his departure he was Scholl Chair and Associate Dean. Professor Choudhry is one of Canada’s leading constitutional scholars, and has published over 60 articles, book chapters and reports. He has appeared as counsel before the Supreme Court of Canada three times, and frequently provides constitutional advice to governments, private sector organizations and other institutions.
Kathleen Day
What do We Know about the Relationship Between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?
Kathleen Day is an Associate Professor in the University of Ottawa’s Department of Economics.
Ross Finnie
The Income Sources for Long-Term Workers who Exhaust Employment Insurance Benefits
Ross Finnie is an Associate Professor at the Graduate School of Graduate and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa.
Jean-Denis Garon
The Design of Employment Insurance in a Federation
Jean-Denis Garon is a Ph.D. Candidate and Teaching Fellow in the Queen’s University Department of Economics.
Morley Gunderson
Employment Insurance in the New World of Work
Morley Gunderson is the CIBC Chair in Youth Employment and Professor at the University of Toronto Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and Department of Economics.
Stephen Jones
The Effectiveness of Training for Displaced Workers with Long Prior Job Tenure
Stephen Jones is a Professor of Economics at McMaster University.
Thomas Klassen
Improving the Governance of Employment and Training Policy in Canada
Thomas Klassen is an Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science and School of Public Policy and Administration at York University.
Alain Noël
Asymmetry at Work: Quebec’s Distinct Implementation of Federal Programs for the Unemployed
Alain Noël is a Professor of Political Science at the Université de Montréal.
Michael Pal
The Impact of Regionally Differentiated Entitlement to EI on Charter-Projected Canadians
Michael Pal is a lawyer and doctoral candidate at the University of Toronto Faculty of Law, where he is a Canada Graduate Scholar. He has degrees in Political Science from Queen’s and Toronto and law degrees from Toronto and N.Y.U.
Craig Riddell
Unemployment Compensation and Adjustment Assistance for Displaced Workers: Policy Options for Canada
Craig Riddell is a Professor of Economics at the University of British Columbia.
William Scarth
Employment Insurance: A Macroeconomic Comparison with Other Income-Support Initiatives
William Scarth is a Professor of Economics and Chair of the Department of Economics at McMaster University.
John Stapleton
What’s Happening with Welfare in Canada?
John Stapleton is the Principal of Open Policy Ontario, a social policy consultancy.
Luc Turgeon
Reforming EI Special Benefits: Exploring Alternative Financing and Delivery Options
Luc Turgeon is an Assistant Professor at the School of Political Studies at the University of Ottawa.
Leah F. Vosko
The Challenge of Expanding EI Coverage: Charting Exclusions and Partial Exclusions on the Basis of Gender, Immigration Status, Age, and Place of Residence and Exploring Avenues for Inclusive Policy Redesign
Leah F. Vosko is a Professor and Canada Research Chair in Feminist Political Economy at York University.
Stan Winer
What do We Know about the Relationship Between Regionalized Aspects of the Unemployment Insurance System and Internal Migration in Canada?
Stan Winer is the Canada Research Chair in Public Policy at Carleton University's School of Public Policy and Administration and Department of Economics.
Donna Wood
Improving the Governance of Employment and Training Policy in Canada
Donna Wood is a Post-Doctoral Fellow at the University of Victoria’s Department of Political Science.