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Homelessness among racialized persons

January 8, 2024 Nick Falvo Leave a comment

Chapter 7 of my open access textbook has just been released. This chapter focuses on homelessness experienced by racialized persons. A ‘top 10’ summary of the chapter can be found here (in English):https://nickfalvo.ca/homelessness-among-racialized-persons/ A ‘top 10’ summary of the chapter in French can be found here:https://nickfalvo.ca/litinerance-chez-les-personnes-racialisees/ The full chapter can be found here (English only):https://nickfalvo.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/01/Falvo-Chapter-7-Racialized-Persons-2jan2024.pdf All material related to the […]

Travels in Harperland

April 30, 2012 Bruce Livesey 4 comments

On my recent book tour to promote “Thieves of Bay Street”Â I have journeyed to Alberta, Montreal and Ottawa. In so doing, I have gotten a taste of the Canada which Stephen Harper and his merry band of Tories are trying to forge. In Calgary, I arrived in time for the final weekend of the Alberta provincial election. The Wildrose Party […]

Recent Immigrants and the Crisis

October 17, 2011 Andrew Jackson One comment

It is no secret that times ofÂ high unemployment and precarious work are especially tough for new and recent entrants to the job market, notably young workers and recent immigrants. The latter were especially hard hit in the recession and slow recovery of the 1990s, when new immigrants had great difficulty finding decent jobs and it took longer and longer […]

Access to Post-Secondary Education

April 20, 2011 Nick Falvo Leave a comment

I recently had the chance to read a 2008 book entitled Who Goes?Â Who Stays?Â What Matters?Â Accessing and Persisting in Post-Secondary Education in Canada.Â Edited by Ross Finnie, Richard Mueller, Arthur Sweetman and Alex Usher, the anthology features 14 chapters written by a total of 21 authors.Â Â Â I found Chapter 4 (co-authored by Finnie and Mueller) and Chapter […]

Minority Workers in the Public Sector

March 12, 2011 Andrew Jackson 3 comments

Another reason for that intolerably high public sector compensation premium — Further to my earlier post showing that the public/private sector pay gap is mainly due to more equal pay for women in service jobs,Â a recent piece from Canadian Public Policy by Hou and Coulombe shows that the pay gap between Canadian born racialized workers and non racialized workers […]

Race and Earnings and the Census

August 3, 2010 Andrew Jackson Leave a comment

I’ve blogged previously on this topic but it is worth revisiting in light of the Census debate.Â The gold standard for looking at racial pay gaps is analysis of differences in earnings between Canadian born whites and visible minorities since this excludes differences between immigrants and non immigrants (most importantly country of education and work experience.) This is really only […]

Do Tuition Rates Matter?

June 12, 2010 Nick Falvo 13 comments

Alex Usher is a frequent commentator on post-secondary education in Canada.Â He regularly blogs for the Globe and Mail at globecampus.ca.Â Yesterday, he wrote an open letter to leaders of Canada’s three major political parties in which he offered advice on post-secondary education policy. I found the following passage to be particularly provocative: First, scratch anything that vaguely resembles a […]

Race and Earnings

October 30, 2007 Andrew Jackson Leave a comment

Economists tend to be remarkably circumspect about racial discrimination in employment, and Statistics Canada is similarly loath to attribute differences in employment and earnings to racial status in other than the most nuanced way. Yet the evidence increasingly shows that racial discrimination is a matter of empirical fact in Canada, and not just a matter of perception on the part […]