Webinar - Xavier St-Denis - Leveraging new and existing labour force data to understand the impact of COVID-19 on workers in Canada

"Leveraging new and existing labour force data to understand the impact of COVID-19 on workers in Canada"

A webinar by Post-Doctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at University of Toronto, Xavier St-Denis.

May 12th, 2020 at 1pm

https://mcgill.zoom.us/j/98244116647
Meeting ID: 982 4411 6647

Summary: Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic in Canada, workers have faced the prospect of job loss or a complete reorganization of their work. To a certain extent, this has magnified existing labour market inequalities, including in terms of risks of contracting COVID-19. The objective of this talk is to present the results of recent data-driven research on this theme. It will be divided in three parts. First, it will provide an overview of some of the challenges faced by workers in the context of COVID-19, as highlighted by recent research. Second, it will briefly present the results of an original analysis on the sociodemographic determinants of occupational risks of exposure to COVID-19 in Canada. Finally, it will discuss future research avenues and recent data innovations by researchers in Canada and elsewhere, with the objective of guiding researchers interested in conducting their own analyses.