Michael Haan
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673059 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Haan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Haan |
| SIGNATURE | HAAN M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western University |
| ORCID | 0009-0002-7274-4618 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 22 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 86 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 22 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Bridging capital
How does the income growth rate of recent immigrant journeypersons compare to their non-immigrant counterparts, and what sociodemographic characteristics help explain this disparity? Drawing on newly available administrative data from Statistics Canada, this article estimates the income growth rate among immigrant and non-immigrant male and female journeypersons who completed apprenticeship training in Canada. The findings show that the income gr…
Retirees from Europe migrating to Thailand
From Temporary Foreign Workers to Permanent Residents
In recent years, temporary foreign workers (TFWs) have not only played an important role in filling Canada's labour shortages and advancing Canada's broad economic and cultural interests but are also seen as a large source of permanent residents admitted to Canada. TFWs come to Canada through various work permit categories under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and the International Mobility Program (IMP). This research uses the 2019 L…
Administrative data linkage in Canada
This paper explores some of the implications that administrative data, defined as data initially collected for purposes other than research, will have for Sociology. Although administrative data are “found” rather than “made” and, in turn, pose several challenges, we argue that the potential of these data warrant the investment, and may lead to a new methodological imagination that can shed a light on time‐tested concepts and advance our understa…
The Centrality of Education for Indigenous Income Mobility in Canada
In this article, we employ a multinomial logistic regression model to determine which factors predict middle- and upper income class belonging among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We examine the impact of identity, education, occupation, and urbanization on income status. The positive impact of higher education is captured by the model; however, post-secondary education has a greater impact on some Indigenous groups than others. We present…
Aboriginal Earnings in Canada
The contrasting social and economic inequalities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples has been the focus of many Canadian studies. Several interlinking factors have been found to impact the socioeconomic status of Canada's Indigenous peoples, including social distance, education, gender, and occupational characteristics. Few of these studies, however, look at the gender wage gap amongst Indigenous populations, and in this pape…
Visualizing the Geographic and Demographic Distribution of Covid-19
Whereas African Americans are disproportionately among the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic's sick and dead, less is known about whether some racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected in Canada. In this data visualization, the authors address two issues limiting understanding of the spatial and demographic distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: (1) COVID-19 infection and death counts are collected at a very high le…
Capturing trends in Canadian divorce in an era without vital statistics
Statistics Canada ceased publishing vital statistics on marriage and divorce in 2008, leaving a knowledge gap in these important demographic indicators
Use of Parental Benefits by Family Income in Canada
Objective: This article examines how two recent policy extensions affected the use and sharing of parental benefits in Canada and how this differed by family income.Background: Paid parental benefits positively affect economic and health outcomes. However, not all policy changes increase leave-taking, especially among low-income families.Method: Drawing on administrative data from 1998 to 2012, we estimate linear probability models to examine the…
The return migration patterns of Canadian seniors
Migration and immigration
Trades-Related Post-Secondary Educational Attainment among Immigrant and Canadian-Born Young Adults in Alberta
This paper examines trades-related and university educational attainment (by age 25) of immigrant and Canadian-born Alberta youth while controlling for gender, family socio-economic status, high school grades, and parental encouragement regarding higher education. Data from the longitudinal Alberta School-Work Transitions Study (1996 – 2003) reveal significant differences between immigrants and non-immigrant young adults in terms of trades-relate…
Gender, political ideology, and climate change beliefs in an extractive industry community
Caste Confusion and Census Enumeration in Colonial India, 1871–1921
Les recensements coloniaux de l’Inde étaient de colossales tentatives visant à dénombrer les castes en fonction d’une taxonomie hybride amalgamant les connaissances locales aux préconceptions et aux idées fausses venues d’Europe. À partir de 1871, les administrateurs de la colonie résolurent de catégoriser et de compter les castes indiennes, mais ils éprouvèrent de nombreuses difficultés à les classifier, à les dénombrer et à compiler les données…
Cohort progress toward household formation and homeownership
As immigrants adapt to their new country, they experience both increased access to homeownership and an increase in independent household formation. This paper examines residential assimilation, as measured by homeownership and household formation, among five young immigrant cohorts in Los Angeles and Toronto over a five-year period in the early 2000s. Results show that while differences between groups are evident already at the beginning of the …
Youth Religious Involvement and Adult Community Participation
The potential role that a religious background plays in determining adult levels of community participation in Canada has, to date, received limited research attention. The present study examines this relationship by testing whether involvement in a religious organization as a youth positively predicts four measures of adult community participation: informal volunteering, formal volunteering, participation in voluntary organizations, and communit…
The Residential Crowding of Immigrants in Canada, 1971-2001
Although rates of residential crowding in Canada declined between 1971 and 2001, the drop for immigrants was not nearly as pronounced as it was for the Canadian-born. This paper determines the extent to which the differential trends in residential crowding can be attributed to changes in educational attainment, household composition, economic characteristics (including housing values), Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of residence, and skin colour …
Do I Buy with a Little Help from My Friends? Homeownership-Relevant Group Characteristics and Homeownership Disparities among Canadian Immigrant Groups, 1971–2001
Using the 1971–2001 census of Canada master files, in this paper it is shown how employment in banking/finance, construction and real estate, and living in multiple family households reduces unexplained homeownership disparities between groups in Canada's seven largest immigrant-intake Census Metropolitan Areas. Although these characteristics are important at times for homeownership attainment, they do not elicit a persistent effect across the st…
The Homeownership Hierarchies of Canada and the United States
In this paper two gaps in North American immigrant homeownership research are addressed. The first concerns the lack of studies (especially in Canada) that identify changes in homeownership rates by skin color over time, and the second relates to the shortage of comparative research between Canada and the United States on this topic. In this paper the homeownership levels and attainment rates of Black, Chinese, Filipino, White, and South Asian im…
Studying the Impact of Religion on Fertility in Nineteenth-Century Canada
A beta version of the machine-readable 1881 census of Canada is used to assess the efficacy of two proxy variables used to predict fertility: (1) the share of church seats held by various church denominations in an areal unit and (2) the proportion of children with biblical names. Weak evidence is found for both measures, although the article questions whether these relationships can be interpreted as evidence for the importance of religious libe…
The Decline of the Immigrant Home-ownership Advantage
In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher home-ownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past 20 years, however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of home-ownership among the Canadian-born. This paper assesses the efficacy of a fairly standard microeconomic consumer choice model, which includes indicators for age, income, education…
Numbers in Nirvana
A debate has recently re-emerged about whether Hinduism in India is a colonial invention or antedates European colonialism. Drawing on the Indian censuses of 1872-1921, I argue that Hinduism is both. It has complex linkages both to European colonialism and to indigenous Indian culture. Traditions like Hinduism are better conceived of as a negotiated territory between factions instead of solely being the creation of one dominant group. Notes Stati…
The Homeownership Hierarchies of Canada and the United States
In this paper two gaps in North American immigrant homeownership research are addressed. The first concerns the lack of studies (especially in Canada) that identify changes in homeownership rates by skin color over time, and the second relates to the shortage of comparative research between Canada and the United States on this topic. In this paper the homeownership levels and attainment rates of Black, Chinese, Filipino, White, and South Asian im…
The Decline of the Immigrant Home-ownership Advantage
In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher home-ownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past 20 years, however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of home-ownership among the Canadian-born. This paper assesses the efficacy of a fairly standard microeconomic consumer choice model, which includes indicators for age, income, education…
Use of Parental Benefits by Family Income in Canada
Objective: This article examines how two recent policy extensions affected the use and sharing of parental benefits in Canada and how this differed by family income.Background: Paid parental benefits positively affect economic and health outcomes. However, not all policy changes increase leave-taking, especially among low-income families.Method: Drawing on administrative data from 1998 to 2012, we estimate linear probability models to examine the…
Gender, political ideology, and climate change beliefs in an extractive industry community
Cohort progress toward household formation and homeownership
As immigrants adapt to their new country, they experience both increased access to homeownership and an increase in independent household formation. This paper examines residential assimilation, as measured by homeownership and household formation, among five young immigrant cohorts in Los Angeles and Toronto over a five-year period in the early 2000s. Results show that while differences between groups are evident already at the beginning of the …
Visualizing the Geographic and Demographic Distribution of Covid-19
Whereas African Americans are disproportionately among the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic's sick and dead, less is known about whether some racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected in Canada. In this data visualization, the authors address two issues limiting understanding of the spatial and demographic distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: (1) COVID-19 infection and death counts are collected at a very high le…
Aboriginal Earnings in Canada
The contrasting social and economic inequalities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples has been the focus of many Canadian studies. Several interlinking factors have been found to impact the socioeconomic status of Canada's Indigenous peoples, including social distance, education, gender, and occupational characteristics. Few of these studies, however, look at the gender wage gap amongst Indigenous populations, and in this pape…
Capturing trends in Canadian divorce in an era without vital statistics
Statistics Canada ceased publishing vital statistics on marriage and divorce in 2008, leaving a knowledge gap in these important demographic indicators
The Residential Crowding of Immigrants in Canada, 1971-2001
Although rates of residential crowding in Canada declined between 1971 and 2001, the drop for immigrants was not nearly as pronounced as it was for the Canadian-born. This paper determines the extent to which the differential trends in residential crowding can be attributed to changes in educational attainment, household composition, economic characteristics (including housing values), Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of residence, and skin colour …
Do I Buy with a Little Help from My Friends? Homeownership-Relevant Group Characteristics and Homeownership Disparities among Canadian Immigrant Groups, 1971–2001
Using the 1971–2001 census of Canada master files, in this paper it is shown how employment in banking/finance, construction and real estate, and living in multiple family households reduces unexplained homeownership disparities between groups in Canada's seven largest immigrant-intake Census Metropolitan Areas. Although these characteristics are important at times for homeownership attainment, they do not elicit a persistent effect across the st…
The return migration patterns of Canadian seniors
Caste Confusion and Census Enumeration in Colonial India, 1871–1921
Les recensements coloniaux de l’Inde étaient de colossales tentatives visant à dénombrer les castes en fonction d’une taxonomie hybride amalgamant les connaissances locales aux préconceptions et aux idées fausses venues d’Europe. À partir de 1871, les administrateurs de la colonie résolurent de catégoriser et de compter les castes indiennes, mais ils éprouvèrent de nombreuses difficultés à les classifier, à les dénombrer et à compiler les données…
Administrative data linkage in Canada
This paper explores some of the implications that administrative data, defined as data initially collected for purposes other than research, will have for Sociology. Although administrative data are “found” rather than “made” and, in turn, pose several challenges, we argue that the potential of these data warrant the investment, and may lead to a new methodological imagination that can shed a light on time‐tested concepts and advance our understa…
Studying the Impact of Religion on Fertility in Nineteenth-Century Canada
A beta version of the machine-readable 1881 census of Canada is used to assess the efficacy of two proxy variables used to predict fertility: (1) the share of church seats held by various church denominations in an areal unit and (2) the proportion of children with biblical names. Weak evidence is found for both measures, although the article questions whether these relationships can be interpreted as evidence for the importance of religious libe…
Numbers in Nirvana
A debate has recently re-emerged about whether Hinduism in India is a colonial invention or antedates European colonialism. Drawing on the Indian censuses of 1872-1921, I argue that Hinduism is both. It has complex linkages both to European colonialism and to indigenous Indian culture. Traditions like Hinduism are better conceived of as a negotiated territory between factions instead of solely being the creation of one dominant group. Notes Stati…
Studying the Impact of Religion on Fertility in Nineteenth-Century Canada
A beta version of the machine-readable 1881 census of Canada is used to assess the efficacy of two proxy variables used to predict fertility: (1) the share of church seats held by various church denominations in an areal unit and (2) the proportion of children with biblical names. Weak evidence is found for both measures, although the article questions whether these relationships can be interpreted as evidence for the importance of religious libe…
The Decline of the Immigrant Home-ownership Advantage
In the past, working-age immigrant families in Canada's large urban centres had higher home-ownership rates than the Canadian-born. Over the past 20 years, however, this advantage has reversed, due jointly to a drop in immigrant rates and a rise in the popularity of home-ownership among the Canadian-born. This paper assesses the efficacy of a fairly standard microeconomic consumer choice model, which includes indicators for age, income, education…
Numbers in Nirvana
A debate has recently re-emerged about whether Hinduism in India is a colonial invention or antedates European colonialism. Drawing on the Indian censuses of 1872-1921, I argue that Hinduism is both. It has complex linkages both to European colonialism and to indigenous Indian culture. Traditions like Hinduism are better conceived of as a negotiated territory between factions instead of solely being the creation of one dominant group. Notes Stati…
Do I Buy with a Little Help from My Friends? Homeownership-Relevant Group Characteristics and Homeownership Disparities among Canadian Immigrant Groups, 1971–2001
Using the 1971–2001 census of Canada master files, in this paper it is shown how employment in banking/finance, construction and real estate, and living in multiple family households reduces unexplained homeownership disparities between groups in Canada's seven largest immigrant-intake Census Metropolitan Areas. Although these characteristics are important at times for homeownership attainment, they do not elicit a persistent effect across the st…
The Homeownership Hierarchies of Canada and the United States
In this paper two gaps in North American immigrant homeownership research are addressed. The first concerns the lack of studies (especially in Canada) that identify changes in homeownership rates by skin color over time, and the second relates to the shortage of comparative research between Canada and the United States on this topic. In this paper the homeownership levels and attainment rates of Black, Chinese, Filipino, White, and South Asian im…
Youth Religious Involvement and Adult Community Participation
The potential role that a religious background plays in determining adult levels of community participation in Canada has, to date, received limited research attention. The present study examines this relationship by testing whether involvement in a religious organization as a youth positively predicts four measures of adult community participation: informal volunteering, formal volunteering, participation in voluntary organizations, and communit…
The Residential Crowding of Immigrants in Canada, 1971-2001
Although rates of residential crowding in Canada declined between 1971 and 2001, the drop for immigrants was not nearly as pronounced as it was for the Canadian-born. This paper determines the extent to which the differential trends in residential crowding can be attributed to changes in educational attainment, household composition, economic characteristics (including housing values), Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) of residence, and skin colour …
Gender, political ideology, and climate change beliefs in an extractive industry community
Caste Confusion and Census Enumeration in Colonial India, 1871–1921
Les recensements coloniaux de l’Inde étaient de colossales tentatives visant à dénombrer les castes en fonction d’une taxonomie hybride amalgamant les connaissances locales aux préconceptions et aux idées fausses venues d’Europe. À partir de 1871, les administrateurs de la colonie résolurent de catégoriser et de compter les castes indiennes, mais ils éprouvèrent de nombreuses difficultés à les classifier, à les dénombrer et à compiler les données…
Cohort progress toward household formation and homeownership
As immigrants adapt to their new country, they experience both increased access to homeownership and an increase in independent household formation. This paper examines residential assimilation, as measured by homeownership and household formation, among five young immigrant cohorts in Los Angeles and Toronto over a five-year period in the early 2000s. Results show that while differences between groups are evident already at the beginning of the …
Trades-Related Post-Secondary Educational Attainment among Immigrant and Canadian-Born Young Adults in Alberta
This paper examines trades-related and university educational attainment (by age 25) of immigrant and Canadian-born Alberta youth while controlling for gender, family socio-economic status, high school grades, and parental encouragement regarding higher education. Data from the longitudinal Alberta School-Work Transitions Study (1996 – 2003) reveal significant differences between immigrants and non-immigrant young adults in terms of trades-relate…
The return migration patterns of Canadian seniors
Migration and immigration
Capturing trends in Canadian divorce in an era without vital statistics
Statistics Canada ceased publishing vital statistics on marriage and divorce in 2008, leaving a knowledge gap in these important demographic indicators
Use of Parental Benefits by Family Income in Canada
Objective: This article examines how two recent policy extensions affected the use and sharing of parental benefits in Canada and how this differed by family income.Background: Paid parental benefits positively affect economic and health outcomes. However, not all policy changes increase leave-taking, especially among low-income families.Method: Drawing on administrative data from 1998 to 2012, we estimate linear probability models to examine the…
Aboriginal Earnings in Canada
The contrasting social and economic inequalities that exist between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples has been the focus of many Canadian studies. Several interlinking factors have been found to impact the socioeconomic status of Canada's Indigenous peoples, including social distance, education, gender, and occupational characteristics. Few of these studies, however, look at the gender wage gap amongst Indigenous populations, and in this pape…
Visualizing the Geographic and Demographic Distribution of Covid-19
Whereas African Americans are disproportionately among the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic's sick and dead, less is known about whether some racial/ethnic groups are more likely to be affected in Canada. In this data visualization, the authors address two issues limiting understanding of the spatial and demographic distribution of the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: (1) COVID-19 infection and death counts are collected at a very high le…
The Centrality of Education for Indigenous Income Mobility in Canada
In this article, we employ a multinomial logistic regression model to determine which factors predict middle- and upper income class belonging among Indigenous and non-Indigenous people. We examine the impact of identity, education, occupation, and urbanization on income status. The positive impact of higher education is captured by the model; however, post-secondary education has a greater impact on some Indigenous groups than others. We present…
Administrative data linkage in Canada
This paper explores some of the implications that administrative data, defined as data initially collected for purposes other than research, will have for Sociology. Although administrative data are “found” rather than “made” and, in turn, pose several challenges, we argue that the potential of these data warrant the investment, and may lead to a new methodological imagination that can shed a light on time‐tested concepts and advance our understa…
From Temporary Foreign Workers to Permanent Residents
In recent years, temporary foreign workers (TFWs) have not only played an important role in filling Canada's labour shortages and advancing Canada's broad economic and cultural interests but are also seen as a large source of permanent residents admitted to Canada. TFWs come to Canada through various work permit categories under the Temporary Foreign Worker Program (TFWP) and the International Mobility Program (IMP). This research uses the 2019 L…
Retirees from Europe migrating to Thailand
Bridging capital
How does the income growth rate of recent immigrant journeypersons compare to their non-immigrant counterparts, and what sociodemographic characteristics help explain this disparity? Drawing on newly available administrative data from Statistics Canada, this article estimates the income growth rate among immigrant and non-immigrant male and female journeypersons who completed apprenticeship training in Canada. The findings show that the income gr…
Sociology (19 works) · Geography (14 works) · Political science (14 works) · Demographic economics (13 works) · Demography (13 works) · Economics (12 works) · Demography (10 works) · Immigration (9 works) · Population (8 works) · Psychology (7 works)