"As leaders,” Subha Barry. President of Seramount says, "we constantly face decisions that affect inclusion and exclusion in our workplaces and societies…..Imagine if, instead of viewing those affected by our decisions as nameless, faceless entities, we saw them as our family, friends, and loved ones.” Her own life was deeply affected by just such a [Read More...]
With the growing reliance on Personal Support Workers (PSWs) in healthcare delivery for older adults across hospital, nursing and long-term carehome, and home and community (HC) sectors, understanding the PSW labor marketis critical for healthcare human resource capacity to care for an agingpopulation. This study utilizes a longitudinal, cross-provincial,individual-level dataset of PSWs in Canada from [Read More...]
We present a systematic review of 67 empirical studies that examine thefactors determining subjective well-being among blue-collar immigrantemployees. Drawing on conservation of resources theory, we propose anintegrated conceptual framework that organizes antecedents of blue-collarimmigrants' subjective well-being based on resource loss and gain dynamics.Our findings indicate that resource loss was most likely when immigrantsexperienced precarious employment, [Read More...]
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Click here to read Sneha Annavarapu's review of Inglis' (2019) Narrow Fairways: Getting by and Falling Behind in the New India.
As the United States ages and the youngest baby boomers are now 58, the remarkable changes American families have gone through in recent decades highlight a new phenomenon: older adults without children. Declines in marriage and fertility and increased cohabitation in the general population are starting to be reflected in the lives of aging adults. Whether by [Read More...]
Atheoretical formulation derived from the cumulative advantage literature, that intergenerational educational mobility has enduring life-course income effects above and beyond individuals' education, is empirically tested. This formulation contrasts sharply with both the human capital model, which does not consider parental education as a determinant of children's income, and the sociological research on social mobility, which [Read More...]
Career paths are formed over time from interactions between individuals, organizations, and labor markets within and across geographic locations. What are the prototypical career paths thus formed? Who are the likely incumbents of these career paths? What are the consequences of pursuing these career paths? This study combines micro-level perspectives on personal agency and macro-level [Read More...]
As working conditions change worldwide, employment precarity is increasing, including for groups for whom such conditions are unexpected. This study investigates how members of one such group—educationally advantaged young adults—describe their professional futures in a context of unprecedented employment precarity where their expected trajectories are no longer easily achievable. Using 75 interviews with young university [Read More...]
Single parents are increasingly a target group for "activation" through new obligations to seek paid work or engage in education or training. Researchers commonly characterize new activation policies in terms of epochal shifts or unidirectional movements away from understanding single parents as "carers" or "mothers". This characterization downplays the degree to which the postwar welfare [Read More...]