Research

Projects

Her project “Four Decades of Canadian Earnings Dynamics Across Workers and Firms”, which is in collaboration with Lance Lochner, Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Huju Liu, and Youngmin Park, uses tax records on all Canadians to study individual earnings inequality and earnings dynamics from 1983—2016. The researchers use linked employer—employee administrative data from 2001 to 2016 to study the interaction of firm productivity and worker earnings dynamics over that period.

Papers

Bowlus, Audra J., Lance Lochner, Chris Robinson and Eda Suleymanoglu. (Forthcoming). “Wages, Skills, and Skill-Biased Technical Change: The Canonical Model Revisited,” Journal of Human Resources, forthcoming.

Bowlus, A., Robinson, C., and Liu, H. 2019. "Different Paths? Human Capital Prices, Wages, and Inequality in Canada and the United States." Journal of Labor Economics 37(52)

Bowlus, A. and Robinson, C. 2020. "The evolution of the human capital of women." Canadian Journal of Economics 53(1)

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Ballucci, D., & Ghebrai, S. (2021, forthcoming) “(De)Constructing Credibility: Examining the Power of Childhood in Unaccompanied Refugee Decision-Making”. Journal of Immigrant & Refugee Studies.

Ballucci, D., & Lecoq, G. (June 9, 2021) "Expanding Mechanisms of Governance: Uncertainty and Risk in Police Decision-Making Strategies in the Pursuit of Specialized Peace Bonds." Crime and Delinquency.

Lecoq, G., Ballucci, D, & D, Spencer. (March 2021). “Keep them on the Straight and Narrow”: Understanding, selecting and governing subjects through Intensive supervision Units. The British Journal of Criminology. 61(2): 538–557.

Projects

The Canadian Neighborhood Project examines the role of neighborhoods in shaping our health and wellbeing. It investigates (1) the impact of neighborhood contexts in determining the spread of COVID-19; (2) the interdependencies between residential and socioeconomic assimilation of immigrants; and (3) the role of the housing market in generating socioeconomic inequalities by race, immigration cohort, and nationality. For more examples, please go to: https://www.katehchoi.com/neighborhoods

Papers

Choi, K. (2021). “Multiracial Children's Experiences of Family Instability”. Journal of Marriage and Family 83(3): 627-643.

Choi, K. 2020. "Radical diversity in the Hispanic Assimilation Process." Journal of Marriage and Family 82(2): 675-690

Choi, K. and R. Goldberg. 2020 "The Social Significance of Interracial Cohabitation: Inferences Based on Fertility Behavior." Demography

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The Public Charter Schools and Segregation in the U.S. project addresses the following three questions: (a) how do public charter schools affect school and residential racial/ethnic segregation?; (b) how do current patterns of segregation shape families’ enrollment in charter schools?; and (c) does this relationship vary for families of different racial/ethnic backgrounds.

Papers

Denice, P. 2019. "Trajectories through postsecondary education and students' life course transitions." Social Science Research 80: 243-260

Denice, P. and Rosenfeld, J. 2018. "Unions and nonunion pay in the United States, 1977-2015." Sociological Science 5: 541-861

Papers

Yoko Yoshida, Michael Haan, and Scott Schaffer (forthcoming). Administrative Data Linkage in Canada: Implications for Sociological Research. Canadian Review of Sociology.

Haan, Michael, Zhou Yu, and Elena Draghici. (forthcoming). Household Formation in Canada and the United States: Insights into Differences by Race, Ethnicity, Immigrant Populations, and Region. Housing Policy Debate.

Deatra Walsh, Michael Haan, and Christopher Hewitt. (forthcoming). Working without Fixity: Accounting for a Mobile Workforce During a Pandemic. Journal of Rural and Community Development.

Projects

The Hardworking Student: A Research Study (HWS Reserach Project) is a longitudinal study examining undergraduates' work-study patterns and experiences using mixex-methods.

The Class of '73 Project follows an Ontario cohort of late baby boomers who were part of the high school graduating “Class of ‘73” and comprises the seventh phase of a 46- year longitudinal research project.

Papers

Lehmann, Wolfgang. 2021. Conflict and Contentment: the social mobility of working-class students. European Journal of Education: Special Issues: Higher Education access, participation and progression: Inequalities of opportunity. 56: 41-52.

Easterbrook, R., R. Raby and W. Lehmann. 2020. Navigating babysitting as liminal, gendered, and undervalued work. Childhood.

Wright, Laura, W. Lehmann and A. Taylor. 2019. 'If you want to have a future and get a life, do an apprenticeship': The expectations and realities of tradesmen's transition to adulthood. Journal of Youth Studies.

Lehmann, W. 2019. "Forms of capital in working-class students' transition from University to employment." Journal of Education and Work, 32:4, 347-259

Projects

His project “Four Decades of Canadian Earnings Dynamics Across Workers and Firms”, which is in collaboration with Audra Bowlus, Emilien Gouin-Bonenfant, Huju Liu, and Youngmin Park, uses tax records on all Canadians to study individual earnings inequality and earnings dynamics from 1983—2016. The researchers use linked employer—employee administrative data from 2001 to 2016 to study the interaction of firm productivity and worker earnings dynamics over that period.

Papers

Lochner, L., Park, Y., and Shin, Y. 2017. "Wage Dynamics and Returns to Unobserved Skill." Centre for Human Capital and Productivity Work Paper Series

Cano-Urbina, J., Lochner, L. 2019. "The Effect of Education and School Quality on Female Crime." Journal of Human Capital, 13(2)

Projects

Her research centers on the analysis of (a) family dynamics and changing kin networks, (b) the impact of parental benefit policies on family wellbeing, (c) population health, and (d) the impact of parenthood of the wellbeing of the family. For more information, please see her research recap and policy briefs.

Papers

Margolis, Rachel, Y. Choi, A. Holms, and N. Mehta. (2021). The Effect of Expanded Parental Benefits on Union Dissolution. Journal of Marriage and Family Journal of Marriage and Family 83 (February 2021): 191–208.

Margolis, R., Choi, Y., Holm, A., and Mehta, N. 2020. "The Effect of Expanded Parental Benefits on Union Dissolution." Journal of Marriage and Family

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Dey, A. and Mendes, K. (2021) ‘“It started with this one post”: #MeToo, India and Higher Education’, Journal of Gender Studies. 10.1080/09589236.2021.1907552

Quan-Haase, A., Mendes, K., Ho, D., Lake, O., Nau, C., & Pieber, D. (2021) Mapping #MeToo: A synthesis review of digital feminist research across social media platforms’, New Media & Society. DOI: 10.1177/1461444820984457

Loney-Howes, R., Mendes, K., Fernández Romero, D., Fileborn, B., & Núñez Puente, S. (2021) ‘Digital Footprints of #MeToo’, Feminist Media Studies. DOI 10.1080/14680777.2021.1886142

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His “Multicultural Common Spaces” project examines the role of hockey and hockey arenas in promoting social and cultural diversity and inclusion. The research seeks to determine to what extent hockey arenas are promote intercultural engagement across immigrant, racial, ethnic, gender and other groups. It also examines barriers people face in trying to participate in the game. The research examines arenas in Halifax, Toronto and Calgary, and looks at a range of levels of hockey, from peewee to professional. For more information, please visit: http://perceptionsofchange.ca/multiculturalcommonspaces.html

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Ramos, Howard, Lisa Kaida, *Diana Singh, *Paul Pritchard, and *Rocehlle Wijesingha. 2021. “The power of a simple index of neighbourhood change: Challenging the perception that there is no such thing as simplicity in creating indexes.” Canadian Geographer. DOI: 10.1111/cag.12711

McLay, Rachel and Howard Ramos. Forthcoming. “Embracing (in)difference? Rural political citizenship in Atlantic Canada.” The Right to Be Rural: Citizenship Outside the City. University of Alberta Press (TBC).

Grant, J.L., Walks, A., Ramos, H. 2020. "Changing Neighbourhoods: Social and Spatial Populization in Canadian Cities." University of British Columbia Press

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Sean Waite is examining the LGBT employment discrimination in Canada. For more detailed information about his projects, please visit: https://www.seanwaite.ca/areas-of-practice

Papers

Waite, S., Pajovic, V. and Denier, N. 2020. "Lesbian, gay and bisexual earnings in the Canadian labor market: New evidence from the Canadian Community Health Survey." Research in Social Stratification Mobility 67

Waite, S. 2020. "Should I Stay or Should I Go? Employment Discrimination and Workplace Harassment against Transgender and Other Minority Employees in Canada's Federal Public Service." Journal of Homosexuality

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First Three Years is a SSHRC-funded project that follows a group of 200 graduates of post-secondary video game education programs in Canada and the United States through their first three years in the workforce. The goal of this project is to understand the challenges recent graduates face in the transition from school to work, with particular attention to the unique challenges of women. This project is being carried out in collaboration with Sean Gouglas (University of Alberta), Suzanne de Castell (Ontario Tech University), Jen Jenson (York University) and Jennifer Whitson (University of Waterloo) and with the support of the Higher Education Video Game Alliance (HEVGA).

Papers

Weststar, J. 2021. Developer Satisfaction Survey 2021: Report on the Impact of COVID-19. International Game Developers Association.

Weststar, J., Kwan, E. and Kumar, S. 2019. "Developer Satisfaction Survey 2019 Summary Report." International Game Developers' Association

Westar, J. and Legault, M-J. 2018. "Women's experiences on the path to a career in game development." Feminisim in Play. Gray, Voorhees & Vossen (Eds.). Palgrave MacMillan

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Her research examines 1) charactersitics of Canadian cities and their effects on retention and economic outcomes of immigrants with a focus on Atlantic Canada, 2) the roles of settlement sectors in integration of immigrants in Canada, and 3) transition of temporary resident status among refugee claimants and pathways to permanent residency in Canada.

Papers

Haan, M., Yoshida, Y., Amoyaw, J., and Iciaszczyk. 2020. "Becoming Permanent: The Transition Characteristics of Temporary Foreign Workers to Permanent Residents in Canada." International Migration

Yoshida, Y. 2020. "Looking Beyond Labour Market Integration: Household conditions surrounding refugee children in Canada." in Refugees Canada and Germany: From Research to Policies and Practice (Ch 11) GESIS Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, Germany

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Her "Stratification in higher education and population health” project highlights the large inequalities within higher education in US and Canada and how they become evident in unequal health of young and middle-aged adults.

Her social factors in chronic pain examines social determinants and social consequences of chronic pain in Canada, US, and other countries.

Papers

Zajacova, A., Rogers, R.G., Grodsky E., and Grol-Prokopczyk H. 2020. "The Relationship Between Education and Pain Among Adults Aged 30-49 in the United States." The Journal of Pain (00)00: 1-11

Zajacova, A. and Lawrence, E.M. 2018. "The relationship Between Education and Health: Reducing Disparities Through a Contextual Approach." Annual Review of Public Health 39: 273-289