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Michael Baker; Yosh Halberstam; Kory Kroft; Alexandre Mas; Derek Messacar – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2024
We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of the distribution of salaries. Our estimates indicate…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, College Faculty, Salaries
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Smith-Carrier, Tracy; Penner, Marcie; Cecala, Aaron L.; Agócs, Carol – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2021
What is the impact of the gender pay gap in academia over the course of a career and retirement? To quantify this impact, we used a Canadian post-secondary institution as a case study and simulated the effects of the reported difference in salary across multiple academic career trajectories. A starting wage gap of less than $9,000 resulted in a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Gender Bias, College Faculty, Teacher Salaries
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Cindy Hanson – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2024
My social position emerges from years of activism and a rural, working-class history. For decades, I have worked in adult/lifelong learning and development--inside communities and post-secondary institutions--always with the goal of achieving a more just and equitable world. While I aspire to these ideals, I have also had to learn that acts of…
Descriptors: Social Action, Social Change, Activism, Global Approach
Frenette, Marc – Statistics Canada, 2023
Selecting a field of study is an important decision made by thousands of incoming postsecondary students each year. Numerous studies have shown that graduates from engineering, business and mathematics programs earn considerably more than their counterparts from arts and humanities. These earnings disparities may reflect differences in skills that…
Descriptors: High School Students, Academic Achievement, Majors (Students), Postsecondary Education
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Li, Yanli – College & Research Libraries, 2021
Using data from the 8Rs CARL Libraries Practitioner Survey in 2014, this study assesses the impact of race on the earnings attainment process based on a sample of 392 CARL library practitioners. It determines that there is a significant salary disparity between visible minorities and nonvisible minorities. Racial differences in job characteristics…
Descriptors: Salary Wage Differentials, Racial Differences, Academic Libraries, Librarians
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Lang, Daniel W. – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2022
When the Carnegie Foundation was established in 1905, universities in Canada and Newfoundland were eligible for grants, on strict conditions that were seen by some as "colonial," "continentalist," or "imperial" intrusions on autonomy; for example, a Carnegie plan to create a federation of Maritime universities. This…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Universities, Philanthropic Foundations, Retirement Benefits
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Howard, Heather A.; Habashi, Meara M.; Reed, Jason B. – College & Research Libraries, 2020
The gender wage gap impacts millions of women throughout the US and world, with women in the US making on average 82 percent of men's salaries (US Census Bureau, 2018). In research libraries, a field dominated by women, this has historically been true as well, with men rising to top positions at a higher rate and making more money than women in…
Descriptors: Research Libraries, Librarians, Salary Wage Differentials, Gender Differences
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Berrigan, Patrick; Scott, Craig W. M.; Zwicker, Jennifer D. – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2023
This study assessed needs and outcomes for people with developmental disability (DD) to understand the socioeconomic status of this group prior to implementation of the Accessible Canada Act in June 2019. The 2017 Canadian Survey on Disability (CSD) was used to analyze data for a sample of individuals with self-reported disability. Data related to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Developmental Disabilities, Socioeconomic Status, Employment
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Roger Pizarro Milian; Dylan Reynolds; Naleni Jacob; Firrisaa Abdulkarim; Gillian Parekh; Robert Brown; David Walters – Journal of Further and Higher Education, 2024
Post-secondary education (PSE) experienced explosive growth and diversification over the past century, affording students a range of increasingly complex pathways that they can travel to acquire a credential. In various jurisdictions, governments have made significant investments to facilitate student uptake of unconventional transfer pathways…
Descriptors: Postsecondary Education, Salary Wage Differentials, Graduates, Foreign Countries
Canadian Association of University Teachers, 2018
While post-secondary institutions are publicly committed to equity and diversity, progress has been slow in achieving employment and wage equity for academic staff. This report provides a snapshot of academic staff representation and income in Canada's universities and colleges in 2016, noting in particular changes in the university sector over…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Disproportionate Representation, College Faculty, Minority Group Teachers
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Osten, Victoria – Journal of Engineering Education, 2021
Background: This study addresses gender differences in early career experiences in engineering by examining entry-level jobs of Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) graduates in Canada. Purpose/Hypotheses: The study explored how gender shapes entry into this male-dominated occupation in the context of the contemporary knowledge economy. I tested four…
Descriptors: Gender Differences, Job Application, College Graduates, Bachelors Degrees
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Andres, Lesley; Lauterbach, Wolfgang; Jongbloed, Janine; Hümme, Hartwig – International Journal of Lifelong Education, 2021
In this paper, we employ a comparative life course approach for Canada and Germany to unravel the relationships among general and vocational educational attainment and different life course activities, with a focus on labour market and income inequality by gender. Life course theory and related concepts of 'time,' 'normative patterns,' 'order and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, Educational Attainment, Employment Patterns
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Laura Woodman – in education, 2022
This paper explores a framework of family ecological theory for overcoming the challenges facing family childcare educators (FCC educators), who care for small groups of children in their own home. Pathways to overcoming these barriers through an ecological approach will be outlined by critically examining current research on these challenges. In…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Child Caregivers, Barriers, Ecology
Diana Toledo Figueroa; Christa Rawkins; Emily Qing; Hugo Marques de Sousa – OECD Publishing, 2024
Teacher shortages have intensified across several OECD countries, making this an urgent priority for education systems. Between 2015 and 2022, the share of students whose principals reported shortages rose from 29% to 46.7% on average across the OECD. Simultaneously, rapid technological advances, such as artificial intelligence (AI), and broader…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Educational Change, Educational Practices, Teaching (Occupation)
Picot, Garnett; Hou, Feng – Statistics Canada, 2020
In both Canada and the United States, immigrants constitute a disproportionately large share of the supply of university-educated labour trained in the science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) fields. This article examines the Canada-U.S. differences in the occupational skill utilization and earnings of STEM-educated immigrant…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Education, STEM Education, Immigrants
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