From the 1980s, there has been a trend among young Canadians to delay their transition to adulthood. This is seen as an indicator of greater investment in career and work life (most often, with parental help) before investing in reproduction. However, there are concerns expressed particularly for women that those with smaller parental and personal resources follow a different life course trajectory. They become parents at younger ages and are more likely to experience family dissolution and lone parenthood. The study uses Statistics Canada’s 2001 General Social Survey on Family History and focuses on men and women born from 1966 to 1975. The timing of transitions by social status is examined for events related to work (school completion and...
This paper starts with a synthesis of changes in families, work (paid and unpaid), reproduction, and...
This thesis presents a critique of two general theoretical approaches to the study of growth in fema...
Transformations in the economy have led to changes in employment practices that can create a mismatc...
There has been a recent concern over polarization of family life among the younger Canadians; that i...
This paper focuses on family formation of Canadians born in 1966-85. Studies have shown that in comp...
This paper examines the polarization by socio-economic status of Canadian women’s timing of and traj...
From the 1980s, there has been a trend among young Canadians to delay their transition to adulthood....
This paper looks into the timing and sequences of early life transitions of Canadian women using dat...
This paper looks at the impact of community and family characteristics on the timing of early life t...
Women’s work histories are closely interwoven with motherhood, as shown by previous studies that hav...
This research focused on Canadian mothers who had a first child between 1970 and 1999, and the proba...
This study examines the entry into first full-time work of Canadians aged 18 to 29 with focus on the...
The transition to adulthood is a much longer and less structured process for more recent generations...
Background: There is an abundance of research on the onset and outcomes of young parents. However, l...
The predominant perspective on perinatal family labour supply in the theoretical and empirical econo...
This paper starts with a synthesis of changes in families, work (paid and unpaid), reproduction, and...
This thesis presents a critique of two general theoretical approaches to the study of growth in fema...
Transformations in the economy have led to changes in employment practices that can create a mismatc...
There has been a recent concern over polarization of family life among the younger Canadians; that i...
This paper focuses on family formation of Canadians born in 1966-85. Studies have shown that in comp...
This paper examines the polarization by socio-economic status of Canadian women’s timing of and traj...
From the 1980s, there has been a trend among young Canadians to delay their transition to adulthood....
This paper looks into the timing and sequences of early life transitions of Canadian women using dat...
This paper looks at the impact of community and family characteristics on the timing of early life t...
Women’s work histories are closely interwoven with motherhood, as shown by previous studies that hav...
This research focused on Canadian mothers who had a first child between 1970 and 1999, and the proba...
This study examines the entry into first full-time work of Canadians aged 18 to 29 with focus on the...
The transition to adulthood is a much longer and less structured process for more recent generations...
Background: There is an abundance of research on the onset and outcomes of young parents. However, l...
The predominant perspective on perinatal family labour supply in the theoretical and empirical econo...
This paper starts with a synthesis of changes in families, work (paid and unpaid), reproduction, and...
This thesis presents a critique of two general theoretical approaches to the study of growth in fema...
Transformations in the economy have led to changes in employment practices that can create a mismatc...