Call to Action #27

Evaluate how social capital is improving both labour market and economic outcomes.

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Supporting Evidence

Differential Economic Inclusion: The Conversion of Symbolic Capital to Material Capital in Canada's Fractured Labour Market

Type of Evidence: Academic Literature

Summary of Key Findings:
This study finds that formal and informal social capital translates into economic capital differently based on gender and race in Canada, with white men receiving economic advantages despite lower social capital while racialized immigrant women face negative economic returns, underscoring a race and gender effect in economic exclusion and the need for structural labour market and social welfare reforms.

Topics & Keywords:
economic exclusion, racialized immigrants, Social capital, volunteering, white Canadian-born men

Limitations:
The study is limited by its lack of detailed social capital decomposition, oversimplified dichotomized measures of race and immigration status, simplistic formal and informal social capital measures due to data constraints, and recommends future research using additional datasets or qualitative methods to address these gaps.

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