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Week 10 Flashcards

1
Q

Four categories of household/care work

A

Housework

childcare

elder care

Kin work

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2
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What is Kin work?

A

Celebrations,’s birthdays, family, gatherings, staying in touch, sharing a Resources, with real and “fictive” kin

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3
Q

Define invisible work

A

Typically undervalued or unmeasured given:

Location in Home

Lack of financial renumeration

Cultural association with women 

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4
Q

“ social reproduction” is labelled as what type of work

A

Essential

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5
Q

Household/Care work shapes labour market _______

(And vice versa)

A

Behaviour

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6
Q

Define work family conflict (WFC)

A

Inability to meet demands of work and family

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7
Q

What is an example of a work to family conflict?

A

Late work meetings means late to school pick up

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8
Q

What is an example of a family to work conflict?

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A sick child means missing work

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9
Q

WFC can involve what 3 types of conflict

A

Time based conflict

Behaviour based conflict

Strain based conflict

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10
Q

Define time based conflict

A

Hours at work interferes with availability for family

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11
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Define behaviour based conflict

A

Incompatible behaviours required for work and family

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12
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Define strain based conflict

A

Strain from one area spills over to the other

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13
Q

Two consequences of WFC

A

Job satisfaction

Job stress

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14
Q

Two individual approaches to work and family

A

Segmenters

Integrators

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15
Q

Examples of segmenters

A

Part time, single, earner, family, Tag Team parenting

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16
Q

Examples of integrators

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Teleworking, home-based businesses

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17
Q

What two types of flexibilities has employers provided to address WFC

A

Temporal flexibility

Spatial flexibility

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18
Q

What two responses from employers to W FC are the most helpful

A

Flex time

Supportive supervisor

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19
Q

Do employers have a legal obligation to provide leave

A

Yes

20
Q

Employee leave benefits are via what

A

EI

21
Q

What are the maternity benefits?

A

Up to 15 weeks at 55% of insurable earnings

22
Q

Four factors that impact to leave uptake

A

Eligibility criteria

Length of leave

Nontransferable leave for fathers

Benefit replacement rate

23
Q

Who takes leave in Canada?

(in terms of men and women)

A

Women’s still take both of leave, but more men are taking paid and unpaid leaves (3% increase in 2000 and 27% increase in 2012)

24
Q

Two things that invisible work lacks

A

Economic value

Pay

25
Q

Are women still responsible for the second shift?

A

Yes

26
Q

Defined the second shift

A

After working out a paid job, they come home to do household work

(The same work their mothers and grandmothers day does full-time housewives)

27
Q

What is the sandwich generation?

A

Informal caregivers juggle elder care with caring for their own children

28
Q

What portion of Canadian informal caregivers are part of the sandwich generation

A

Over 1/4

29
Q

Two types of care that caring for children involves

A

Instrumental care

Expressive care

30
Q

Define instrumental care

(And other word)

A

Feeding dressing bathing

(Caring for)

31
Q

Define expressive care

(And other word)

A

Love support and encouragement

(Caring about)

32
Q

Immigration policies have shaped ______ ______

A

Population composition

33
Q

The current immigration system is a _____ base system

A

Point

34
Q

List the five entry classes for immigration

A

Express entry

Family sponsorship

Refugee

Provincial nominees

Temporary

35
Q

List the six selection factors in the immigration point system

A
36
Q

What two factors are the most important in the current immigration system?

(And their points allocation)

A

Language (28)

Education (25)

37
Q

Immigration: what is the occupational barrier?

A

Licensing

38
Q

Immigration: what does occupational mismatch mean?

A

Immigrants work in occupations, which underutilize their skills and inhibit earnings potential

39
Q

Immigration: what is the unmeasured skill deficit?

A

Language

40
Q

Are there higher or lower rates of self-employment for immigrants

What about wages?

A

Higher self employment rates for immigrants

Wage is not necessarily higher in self-employment

41
Q

Responses to barriers: list the two types of stigma management?

A

Passing

Covering

42
Q

Stigma management: define “ passing”

A

Appear a member of a non-stigmatized group

43
Q

Stigma management: define “ covering”

A

Downplay salience of characteristics that foster stigmatization

44
Q

Recent changes: greater emphasis on ______ ______ in selection for economic class immigrants

A

Canadian experience

45
Q

Recent changes, more pathways for students, temporary work permits into ______ ______

(And example)

A

Permanent residency

(Post graduate work permit)

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