Parenthood, Gender, and the Risks and Consequences of Job Loss.
Job loss can be difficult to navigate for individuals and their families. However, we know very little about the relationship between parental status and job loss. Drawing on rich data from Statistics Canada's Workplace and Employee Survey, we analyse differences across gender and parental status gr...
| Publicado en: | Social Forces Vol. 100; no. 4; pp. 1642 - 1671 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2022
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