Remote work and employment dynamics under COVID-19: Evidence from Canada

G Gallacher, I Hossain - Canadian public policy, 2020 - utppublishing.com
In this study, we find that 41 percent of jobs in Canada can be performed remotely, with
significant variation across provinces, cities, and industries. We complement this finding with …

The employment quality of persons with disabilities: findings from a national survey

FV Shahidi, A Jetha, V Kristman, PM Smith… - Journal of Occupational …, 2023 - Springer
Purpose Labour market integration is a widely accepted strategy for promoting the social
and economic inclusion of persons with disabilities. But what kinds of jobs do persons with …

[HTML][HTML] Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on health, financial worries, and perceived organizational support among people living with disabilities in Canada

MAM Gignac, FV Shahidi, A Jetha, V Kristman… - Disability and Health …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Individuals with physical or mental health disabilities may be particularly
vulnerable to the impact of COVID-19 on their health and employment. Objectives We …

[HTML][HTML] Job quality and precarious employment among lesbian, gay, and bisexual workers: A national study

DJ Kinitz, FV Shahidi, LE Ross - SSM-Population Health, 2023 - Elsevier
Background Employment outcomes among sexual minority (ie, lesbian, gay, bisexual)
workers are poorly understood, and previous research on this topic has focused almost …

Assessing the psychosocial work environment in relation to mental health: a comprehensive approach

FV Shahidi, MAM Gignac, J Oudyk… - Annals of work …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
Objectives Prevailing job stress models encourage a multidimensional view of the
psychosocial work environment and highlight the role that multiple co-occurring stressors …

The working disadvantaged: the role of age, job tenure and disability in precarious work

A Jetha, KA Martin Ginis, S Ibrahim, MAM Gignac - BMC Public Health, 2020 - Springer
Background Precarious work is an increasingly common characteristic of industrialized labor
markets that can widen health inequities, especially among disadvantaged workforce …

What makes work better or worse? An analytical framework

G Murray, D Gesualdi-Fecteau… - … Review of Labour …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
This article seeks to advance our thinking about better and worse work by develo** a
novel framework for assessing the quality of work and its implications. It does so in terms of …

Radical incrementalism and trust in the citizen: Income security in Canada in the time of COVID-19

J Robson - Canadian public policy, 2020 - utppublishing.com
This article documents Canada's main public policy responses to promote income security
among working-age adults during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) crisis between …

[HTML][HTML] Proletarianization and gateways to precarization in the context of land-based investments for agricultural commercialization in Lao PDR

V Nanhthavong, S Bieri, AT Nguyen, C Hett… - World Development, 2022 - Elsevier
Labor is central to the debates on global land-based investment. Proponents purport that
these investments are an avenue for rural transformation from resource-to wage-based …

Reconceptualizing parental leave benefits in COVID-19 Canada: from employment policy to care and social protection policy

A Doucet, S Mathieu, L McKay - Canadian public policy, 2020 - utppublishing.com
Although the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has spurred critical and much-
needed attention to re-thinking policy approaches to child care and long-term elder care …