unemployment can lead to: - ANSWER- material and social deprivation
- psychological stress
- adoption of health-threatening coping behaviours
unemployment is associated with: - ANSWER- physical & mental health problems
e.g. depression, anxiety, increased suicide rates
job insecurity causes...
HTHSCI 1RR3 test 2 Questions &
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unemployment can lead to: - ANSWER- material and social deprivation
- psychological stress
- adoption of health-threatening coping behaviours
unemployment is associated with: - ANSWER- physical & mental health problems
e.g. depression, anxiety, increased suicide rates
Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) - ANSWER-
employment protection in canada
- guidelines set standards for responsible business conduct across a range of issues
such as human rights, labour rights, and the environment
why are working conditions important in sdoh? - ANSWER- great amount of time
spent in workplace
- people already vulnerable are most likely to experience health threatening work
conditions
key work dimensions shaping health outcomes - ANSWER- job strain; effort-reward
imbalance; organizational justice; work hours; status inconsistency; precarious work
precarious employment - ANSWER- work is uncertain, insecure & unstable
- insecurity exists across various dimensions of work, and social & economic
vulnerability
- more than 1 in 5 canadian professions have precarious jobs
labour market today - ANSWER- careers related to the development of projects
(consultant, project management, coordinator)
- work in several jobs over the course of a lifetime
- creates "boundary less" (nomadic/unstable) careers vs. "vertical ladder" careers
boundeyless career - ANSWERoften represents tech/knowledge economy: mobile
work, networks and virtual communities of practice
traditional career - ANSWERRepresents industrial work - one stop shop, first job/last
job, climbing the vertical ladder
, boundaryless career - ANSWER- more "flexibility" in jobs and self-employment
- false sense of self-employment
- precarious work (lack of stability, permanence and/or benefits)
- new classifications of employment statuses (casual, contract, temporary, reduced-
time, part-time, etc.) - "gig" economy
unemployment rate - ANSWERnumber of people in the labour force (15-64 yrs.)
actively looking for a job
employment - ANSWERemployed divided by total labour force
precariat - ANSWERinsecure ( precarious) working class (proletariat)
security - ANSWERcontrol
job security - ANSWERenables economic + social inclusion
income security - ANSWEReconomic inclusion
- critique: undereducated/impoverished women might leave labour force; stigma of
basic income
intersectionality - ANSWERthe interconnected nature of social categorizations such
as race, class, and gender as they apply to a given individual or group, regarded as
creating overlapping and interdependent systems of discrimination or disadvantage
pay gap - ANSWERracialized workers earn 81.4 cents per dollar compared to non-
radicalized workers
why is there a pay gap? - ANSWER- racialized workers are more willing to work but
have a harder time finding jobs
- jobs found are more likely to be part-time, low wage, insecure
gender-based inequity - ANSWERnon-racialized women earn 69 cents per dollar
non-radialized men earn
race-based inequity - ANSWER- racialized men earn 76 cents per dollar non-
racialized men earn
- racialized women earn 85 cents for every dollar non-racialized women earn
gender-based + race-based inequity (intersectionality) - ANSWERracialized women
earn 58 cents per dollar non-racialized men earn
the new economy: flexible production - ANSWERgoods produced faster & cheaper -
> consequence -> people change brands more often & want latest product
functional flexibility - ANSWER- workers word harder & longer
- focus on outcomes ("lean production")
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