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Shelley Phipps is a Professor in the Department of Economics at Dalhousie University. She received her Ph.D. (Economics) from the University of British Columbia in 1987, and her dissertation research focused upon an evaluation of unemployment insurance reform. Since that time she has published a variety of papers on the subject of UI/EI, including several studies conducted for HRDC: (“Potential Access to Maternity and Parental Benefits”; “Maternity and Parental Leaves and Allowances: An International Comparison”; “The Role of UI in the Income Security Framework” (with L. Osberg); and “The Income Distributional and Redistributional Consequences of Unemployment Insurance” (with L. Osberg). Her current research interests include the economic well-being of children, international comparisons of social policy, poverty and inequality and decision-making within families.

Fiona MacPhail is an Economics faculty member at the University of Northern British Columbia, where she teaches courses on Labour Economics, Poverty, Inequality, Development and Intermediate Macroeconomics. She received her Ph.D. (Economics) from Dalhousie University in 1996. Her recent publications include articles on earnings inequality in the Cambridge Journal of Economics, Applied Economics and the International Review of Applied Economics.

Martha MacDonald is a Professor in the Economics Department, Saint Mary’s University. She holds a Ph.D. from Boston College. Her recent research has been on labour market restructuring and social security reform. She participated in the HRDC evaluation of the Atlantic Groundfish Strategy (with GTA/ARC), for which she conducted a special study on household and gender issues. She recently published “Gender and Social Security Reform: Pitfalls and Possibilities” in Feminist Economics, vol. 4:1, 1998.