scholarly journals The Wealth of Immigrants: Expanding our Understanding of Immigrant Economic Integration in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley J Dalgleish
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asset Accumulation ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Life Course

Wealth is a key feature of immigrants' successful economic integration in Canada, while more broadly contributing to their level of social inclusion and sense of self-efficacy throughout the life course. Yet, immigrant wealth has been largely ignored in the Canadian literature. Current analyses of immigrant economic integration focus primarily on labour market outcomes and growing earnings inequalities. This body of literature would be greatly enriched by strengthened understandings of immigrant savings, consumption, asset accumulation and investment. This paper thus brings together the fragmented and scarce literature related to immigrant wealth; consequently merging literatures from different fields and generating an important disucssion of the overarching issues affecting immigrant wealth in Canada. A critical review of the literature reveals that recent immigrant cohorts face increasing economic inequality compared to the Canadian born population and established immigrants, while wealth is increasingly polarized among recent immigrant groups. These trends have profound implications for the long-term economic well-being of immigrants in Canada, particularly as they reach retirement age.

scholarly journals The Wealth of Immigrants: Expanding our Understanding of Immigrant Economic Integration in Canada

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kimberley J Dalgleish
Keyword(s):  
Economic Integration ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Asset Accumulation ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Recent Immigrant ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Life Course

Wealth is a key feature of immigrants' successful economic integration in Canada, while more broadly contributing to their level of social inclusion and sense of self-efficacy throughout the life course. Yet, immigrant wealth has been largely ignored in the Canadian literature. Current analyses of immigrant economic integration focus primarily on labour market outcomes and growing earnings inequalities. This body of literature would be greatly enriched by strengthened understandings of immigrant savings, consumption, asset accumulation and investment. This paper thus brings together the fragmented and scarce literature related to immigrant wealth; consequently merging literatures from different fields and generating an important disucssion of the overarching issues affecting immigrant wealth in Canada. A critical review of the literature reveals that recent immigrant cohorts face increasing economic inequality compared to the Canadian born population and established immigrants, while wealth is increasingly polarized among recent immigrant groups. These trends have profound implications for the long-term economic well-being of immigrants in Canada, particularly as they reach retirement age.

Moral Disability, Moral Injury, and the Flight from Vulnerability

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia L. Warren
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Moral Injury ◽  
Controversial Issues ◽  
Moral Reflection ◽  
Moral Value ◽  
Self Identity ◽  
Moral Conviction ◽  
Moral Importance

This chapter explores the concept of moral disability, identifying two types. The first type involves disabling conditions that distort one’s process of moral reflection. Examples include the incapacity to consider the long-term future, to feel empathy for others, and to be honest with oneself. A noteworthy example of self-deception is systematically denying one’s own—and humanity’s—vulnerability to the power of others, to accidents, and to having one’s well-being linked to that of others and the eco-system. Acknowledging vulnerability often requires a new sense of self. The second type includes incapacities directly resulting from ‘moral injury’—debilitating, self-inflicted harms when one violates a deeply held moral conviction, even if trying to remain true to another moral value. Examining moral disabilities highlights the moral importance of self-identity. More progress may be made on controversial issues if we discuss who we are, how we connect, and how we can heal.

scholarly journals Mechanisms linking teenage mothers’ educational attainment with self-reported health at age 50

2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie Maslowsky ◽  
C. Emily Hendrick ◽  
Haley Stritzel
Keyword(s):  
Educational Attainment ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The United States ◽  
Social Determinant ◽  
Early Childbearing ◽  
Partner Characteristics ◽  
Higher Educational Attainment ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Social Determinant Of Health

Abstract Background Early childbearing is associated with adverse health and well-being throughout the life course for women in the United States. As education continues to be a modifiable social determinant of health after a young woman gives birth, the association of increased educational attainment with long-term health for women who begin childbearing as teenagers is worthy of investigation. Methods Data are from 301 mothers in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979 who gave birth prior to age 19. We estimated path models to assess women’s incomes, partner characteristics, and health behaviors at age 40 as mediators of the relationship between their educational attainment and self-rated general health at age 50. Results After accounting for observed background factors that select women into early childbearing and lower educational attainment, higher levels of education (high school diploma and GED attainment vs. no degree) were indirectly associated with higher self-rated health at age 50 via higher participant income at age 40. Conclusions As education is a social determinant of health that is amenable to intervention after a teen gives birth, our results are supportive of higher educational attainment as a potential pathway to improving long-term health outcomes of women who begin childbearing early.

Physical Activity Across the Cancer Journey: Experiences and Recommendations From People Living With and Beyond Cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (3) ◽  
pp. 575-585
Author(s):  
Mairéad Cantwell ◽  
Deirdre Walsh ◽  
Bróna Furlong ◽  
Lisa Loughney ◽  
Noel McCaffrey ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Sense Of Self ◽  
Exercise Program ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Home Exercise ◽  
Program Success ◽  
Rehabilitation Programs ◽  
Cancer Support ◽  
And Control

Abstract Background The majority of individuals living with and beyond cancer are not sufficiently active to achieve health benefits. Objective The aim of this study was to explore individuals’ experiences of physical activity (PA) behavior across the cancer journey and to ask individuals living with and beyond cancer to identify strategies to support habitual PA. Design An exploratory, descriptive, qualitative design was used. Methods Purposive sampling methods were used to recruit individuals living with and beyond cancer who had been referred to, and/or participated in, a community-based exercise program or were attending a cancer support center. The focus group discussions were audio recorded, transcribed verbatim, and analyzed using a thematic analysis approach. Results Seven focus groups were conducted with 41 participants. Many individuals reported that regular PA provided a vehicle for recovery that created a sense of “self-power,” defined as taking ownership and control of one’s health to increase well-being. Barriers to PA participation included environmental-, patient-, and treatment-related challenges. Recommendations to support long-term adherence to PA included completion of fitness assessments at regular intervals and provision of a home exercise program. Limitations The benefits and barriers to PA participation for individuals diagnosed with cancers that were not represented may not have been identified. The strategies recommended to support habitual PA may be salient only to individuals whose cancer diagnoses were represented. Conclusions Exercise is seen as a vehicle for recovery from cancer but long-term adherence for individuals is complex. The findings from this study can inform the development of exercise oncology rehabilitation programs and could support a greater likelihood of program success, thereby optimizing the health, well-being, and quality of life of survivors of cancer.

scholarly journals The Long-Term Consequences of Free School Choice*

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Victor Lavy
Keyword(s):  
School Choice ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Male Students ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Teachers Colleges ◽  
Post Secondary ◽  
Free School ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
Long Term Consequences

Abstract I study the long-term consequences of an effective free school choice program that targeted disadvantaged students in Israel two decades ago. I show that the program led to significant gains in post-secondary education through increased enrollment in academic and teachers’ colleges without any increase in enrollment in research universities. Free school choice also increased earnings at the adulthood of treated students. Male students had much larger improvements in college schooling and labour market outcomes. Female students, however, experienced higher increases in marriage and fertility rates, which most likely interfered with their schooling and labour market outcomes.

The Inefficacy of Strong Ties Networks in Migration Employment Outcomes

2018 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 235-259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruby Absuelo ◽  
Peter Hancock
Keyword(s):  
Labour Market ◽  
The United States ◽  
Employment Outcomes ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Employment Opportunities ◽  
Strong Ties ◽  
Green Card ◽  
Key Variables ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes

Abstract We examined Philippine graduates’ use of social networks to obtain initial employment in the United States labour market. Our research focused on employment opportunities and found that Philippine graduates’ usage of Strong Ties networks contributed to underemployment. Reliance on Strong Ties networking decreased respondents’ broader range of US employment opportunities and further impeded their prospects of upward employment mobility. While the Philippine graduates’ Strong Ties networking provided assistance and most specifically acted as intermediaries for gaining their initial employment, this type of networking had a significant impact resulting in poor labour market outcomes and rather imperfect long-term employment opportunities. Moreover, we found that, in conjunction with the use of Strong Ties, key variables, such as low-demand degree fields, lower educational attainment, lesser proficiency in English and green card status, were also strongly associated with poor employment outcomes.

scholarly journals Types of Education, Achievement and Labour Market Integration over the Life Course

2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 58-64 ◽  
Author(s):  
Irene Kriesi ◽  
Juerg Schweri
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Labour Market ◽  
Market Integration ◽  
Educational Achievement ◽  
Market Outcomes ◽  
Labour Market Integration ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Labour Market Outcomes ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
The Relationship

Over the last 15 years, research on the effects of different types of education on labour market integration and labour market outcomes has evolved. Whereas much of the early work analysed school-to-work transition outcomes, the focus of more recent studies has shifted to the relationship between educational achievement and mid- and long-term labour market outcomes. The overarching question of this body of research asks whether the allocation to different types of education leads to different skill sets, to different employment opportunities and to jobs offering unequal wages, job autonomy or job security. However, pivotal issues related to the comparison of vocational and general types of education or upper-secondary and tertiary-level qualification remain ambiguous and are hampered by a lack of suitable data and methodological problems. The aim of this issue is to further this debate and to provide more insights into the relationship between individual and contextual factors, allocation within the educational system, educational achievement and labour market outcomes over the life course. The 12 articles collected in this issue highlight the importance of focussing on the specific features and functions of different education tracks and programs, of applying data and methods suitable for such analyses and of considering the interplay of different determinants of education outcomes, such as social origin, gender or ethnicity.

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