HTHSCI 1RR3 TEST 2 (Units 4,5,6) || With
Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
Conceptial Research
,HTHSCI 1RR3 TEST 2 (Units 4,5,6) || With
Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
Trends of precious work in professions: - ANSWER - - more than 1 in 5 Canadian
professionals have precious jobs (2018).
- Healthcare professionals have high incidence of precarious jobs due to unit closures
(moving from one workplace to another)
- Workers at Toronto Public Library also have high incidence of precarious jobs due to
unpredictable work schedules (from the TED Talk)
Why is precarious work higher in the OLDER population than younger population? -
ANSWER - "It could be that the labour market is squeezing older professionals out of
secure jobs, but more research is required to understand the nature of the age
differential."
Why is precarious work higher for professionals with less than five years of experience?
- ANSWER - Research suggests that experience pays off. Low experience = high
incidence of precarious employment, and vice versa.
Historical labour market transformation: - ANSWER - - Farming/agriculture
- 1st and 2nd industrial revolution
- 3rd industrial revolution: technology/knowledge economy
- 4th industrial revolution: artificial intelligence
Trends of the labour market today: - ANSWER - - Careers related to developing projects
(such as project management, consultant, coordinator)
- Individuals work in several jobs over the course of a lifetime
- More "boundaryless" careers as opposed to "vertical ladder" careers
Boundaryless career - ANSWER - - often represents tech/knowledge economy: mobile
work, networks and virtual communities of practice
- more "flexibility" in jobs and self-employment
- false sense of self-employment
- precarious work
- new classifications of employment statuses (casual, contract, temporary, part-time,
etc.)
- "gig" economy
Traditional career - ANSWER - Represents industrial work - one stop shop, first job/last
job, climbing the vertical ladder
What is Canada's unemployment rate? - ANSWER - Remained unchanged at 5.7 % in
August 2019
, Unemployment rate - ANSWER - the percentage of the labor force (15-64 y.o.) actively
looking for a job
Employment rate - ANSWER - The number of people employed divided by the total
labour force expressed as a percentage
Where does the word "precariat" come from? - ANSWER - - PRECArious (insecure)
- proletaRIAT (working-class)
Job vs income security - ANSWER - - Job security: enables economic and social
inclusion
- Income security: enables economic inclusion only
Kimberle Crenshaw - intersectionality - ANSWER - Describes how the socioeconomic
position of a person (such as class, gender, race) intersect and overlap with another,
creating systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
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
Pay gap - ANSWER - Racialized workers earn less than non-racialized workers
Gender-based employment inequity - ANSWER - non-racialized women earn less than
non-radicalized men
Race-based employment inequity - ANSWER - racialized men/women earn less than
non-racialized men/women
Gender based + race based inequity (intersectionality) - ANSWER - Racialized women
earn less than non-racialized men
Impacts of Covid-19 to employment - ANSWER - - Indigenous and racialized
households are more severely impacted
- Racialized workers are more likely to suffer job losses and are at higher risk for
infection
Populations most impacted by employment insecurity - ANSWER - - women
- youth
- new immigrants
- racialized minorities
- persons with disabilities
- persons with lower education
Is insecurity randomly or not randomly distributed? - ANSWER - Not randomly
distributed (hello stats my old friend)
Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
Conceptial Research
,HTHSCI 1RR3 TEST 2 (Units 4,5,6) || With
Questions & 100% Accurate Answers
Trends of precious work in professions: - ANSWER - - more than 1 in 5 Canadian
professionals have precious jobs (2018).
- Healthcare professionals have high incidence of precarious jobs due to unit closures
(moving from one workplace to another)
- Workers at Toronto Public Library also have high incidence of precarious jobs due to
unpredictable work schedules (from the TED Talk)
Why is precarious work higher in the OLDER population than younger population? -
ANSWER - "It could be that the labour market is squeezing older professionals out of
secure jobs, but more research is required to understand the nature of the age
differential."
Why is precarious work higher for professionals with less than five years of experience?
- ANSWER - Research suggests that experience pays off. Low experience = high
incidence of precarious employment, and vice versa.
Historical labour market transformation: - ANSWER - - Farming/agriculture
- 1st and 2nd industrial revolution
- 3rd industrial revolution: technology/knowledge economy
- 4th industrial revolution: artificial intelligence
Trends of the labour market today: - ANSWER - - Careers related to developing projects
(such as project management, consultant, coordinator)
- Individuals work in several jobs over the course of a lifetime
- More "boundaryless" careers as opposed to "vertical ladder" careers
Boundaryless career - ANSWER - - often represents tech/knowledge economy: mobile
work, networks and virtual communities of practice
- more "flexibility" in jobs and self-employment
- false sense of self-employment
- precarious work
- new classifications of employment statuses (casual, contract, temporary, part-time,
etc.)
- "gig" economy
Traditional career - ANSWER - Represents industrial work - one stop shop, first job/last
job, climbing the vertical ladder
What is Canada's unemployment rate? - ANSWER - Remained unchanged at 5.7 % in
August 2019
, Unemployment rate - ANSWER - the percentage of the labor force (15-64 y.o.) actively
looking for a job
Employment rate - ANSWER - The number of people employed divided by the total
labour force expressed as a percentage
Where does the word "precariat" come from? - ANSWER - - PRECArious (insecure)
- proletaRIAT (working-class)
Job vs income security - ANSWER - - Job security: enables economic and social
inclusion
- Income security: enables economic inclusion only
Kimberle Crenshaw - intersectionality - ANSWER - Describes how the socioeconomic
position of a person (such as class, gender, race) intersect and overlap with another,
creating systems of discrimination or disadvantage.
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
Pay gap - ANSWER - Racialized workers earn less than non-racialized workers
Gender-based employment inequity - ANSWER - non-racialized women earn less than
non-radicalized men
Race-based employment inequity - ANSWER - racialized men/women earn less than
non-racialized men/women
Gender based + race based inequity (intersectionality) - ANSWER - Racialized women
earn less than non-racialized men
Impacts of Covid-19 to employment - ANSWER - - Indigenous and racialized
households are more severely impacted
- Racialized workers are more likely to suffer job losses and are at higher risk for
infection
Populations most impacted by employment insecurity - ANSWER - - women
- youth
- new immigrants
- racialized minorities
- persons with disabilities
- persons with lower education
Is insecurity randomly or not randomly distributed? - ANSWER - Not randomly
distributed (hello stats my old friend)
