Janine Jongbloed
Postdoctoral Fellow
My current research focuses on gender and social inequalities resulting from different forms of educational participation. Tertiary education is a key policy response to combat income inequality across the OECD countries. However, rising educational levels have not stemmed the tide of growing income inequality. Indeed, tertiary education expansion may have done the opposite, and systems with a strong focus on general (often university) education, such as Canada, are often contrasted with that of systems aiming to promote specific skills through vocational education and training (VET), such as Germany. This study analyzes extensive comparative longitudinal data to answer the question: What are the long-term effects of educational and labour market trajectories on women and men’s outcomes in relation to income inequality in Canada and Germany? This research is conducted as part of the SSHRC-funded project “Education, work, and income inequality across the life course: a Canadian and German longitudinal analysis” for which I am a Postdoctoral Research Fellow with Professor Lesley Andres. We are interested in exploring issues around the gender-work nexus and gendered educational and employment trajectories over the adult life course.
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Dr. Janine Jongbloed is a researcher at IREDU in France and UBC in Canada in the fields of the sociology and economics of education. Her work focuses on the effects of tertiary education on individuals’ life chances in comparative perspective, with a focus on gender and social inequalities. She explores how educational systems and and welfare production regimes shape the social distribution of market and nonmarket outcomes, such as income, unemployment and inactivity, cognitive skills, and well-being.
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- Quality of life of NEET youth in comparative perspective: subjective well-being during the transition to adulthood (2022)
Journal of Youth Studies, 25 (3), 321--343 - Gender, education, and labour market participation across the life course: A Canada/Germany comparison (2021)
International Journal of Lifelong Education, , 1--20 - Untangling the roles of low skill and education in predicting youth NEET statuses: negative signalling effects in comparative perspective (2021)
Compare: A Journal of Comparative and International Education, - Examining the well-being and creativity of schoolchildren in France (2019)
Cambridge Journal of Education, , 1--26 - The relative relationship between education and workplace task discretion: an international comparative perspective (2019)
Journal of Education and Work, , 1--19 - Higher education for happiness? Investigating the impact of education on the hedonic and eudaimonic well-being of Europeans (2018)
European Educational Research Journal, 17 (5), 733--754 - Well-being in the Welfare State: the redistributive capacity of education (2016)
European Journal of Education, 51 (4), 564-586 - Elucidating the constructs happiness and wellbeing: A mixed-methods approach (2015)
International Journal of Wellbeing, 5 (3), 1--20 - Happiness, well-being, and post-secondary attainment: measuring the subjective well-being of British Columbia's high school graduate class of 1988 (2012)
University of British Columbia,
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