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Patterns of Labour Market Instability Across Canada
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SSHRC IDG awarded 2020: Canada is at the cusp of foundational industrial change. New technologies and business practices are transforming the nature of work, spurring widespread concern over growing labour market instability and large scale job losses. Recent high profile plant closures and layoff announcements from the likes of General Motors, Sears, and a swell of oilfield services firms, highlight the commonality of job loss and the challenges workers, communities, and even entire provinces face when work disappears. How do workers respond to the loss of employment? How do different social and industrial contexts surrounding labour market instability impact the consequences of job loss? The proposed project will weigh in on these questions and broader academic and public debates about job instability in Canada by documenting the incidence and consequences of job separations over the period spanning 1997-2019. In particular, I will draw on the master file of the Labour Force Survey to hone in on how detailed employment endings – resulting from layoffs, plant closures, temporary contract endings, dismissals, completion of seasonal work, and job dissatisfaction, among others – impact subsequent earnings, income, job quality, and social outcomes. Longitudinal methods, including fixed effects models and sequence analysis, will document how worker wellbeing changes in the wake of a job separation. Individual level data from the Labour Force Survey will be linked to rich contextual data on social and economic conditions, including the unemployment rate, neighborhood income, and population density, to illustrate how the prevalence and outcomes of job loss vary across Canada. The exceptionally long timeframe under study will illuminate how these patterns have evolved over a period of massive economic change.
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- Date created
- 2020-02-01
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- Insight Development Grant
- IDG
- SSHRC
- Sociology of Work
- Layoffs
- Temporary Contracts
- Future of Work
- Employment Insurance
- Job Quality
- Industrial Sociology
- Social Policy
- Labour Markets
- Sociology
- Demography
- Employment and Labour
- Social Development and Welfare
- Gender Issues
- 1997AD-2019AD
- North America
- Canada
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- Type of Item
- Research Material
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- ©️Denier, Nicole. All rights reserved other than by permission. This document embargoed to those without UAlberta CCID until 2024.