Mancession to Shecession: Higher Education, Employment, and Gender across Two Economic Recessions

A distance; International audience; In this paper we compare the longitudinal labour market activity of Canadian women and men across the spans of the 2008 ‘great’ recession and the 2020 pandemic recession to determine differential impacts by gender and education on labour market engagement, income, and family household tasks in these two time periods.

Measuring educational participation and attainment over the life course

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Gendered “family care work” and employment during the COVID-19 pandemic through the lens of educational attainment

The Challenge of Conducting Longitudinal Research during COVID-19 : Educational Research in the Time of COVID

Elucidating the constructs happiness and wellbeing: A mixed-methods approach

International audience; In this study we examine the constructs "happiness" and "wellbeing" in a sample of Canadian women and men in mid-adulthood. Through a sequential mixed-methods approach, we utilize Sen and Nussbaum's conceptualizations of capabilities to inform the themes generated from semi-structured interviews. We find that participants understand happiness and wellbeing as two distinct constructs that are illuminated in the metaphors happiness as balance and the gears of wellbeing. Second, we corroborate these constructs through a principal component analysis of questionnaire data. We conclude that happiness and wellbeing are not static entities, but rather iterative processes tha…

The long arm of education? A 28-year perspective on the consequences of education for job quality and wellbeing over adulthood

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