MA project: "Is the Canadian Labour Market Colour-Blind: Evidence of Ethnic Wage Differentials from the 2001 Census"

Recipient of Gordon M. Shrum Gold Medal, SFU's most prestiguous undergraduate award, 2005.

Awarded Cliff Lloyd Memorial Award for Economics Honours graduate with the highest GPA, 2005.

Recipient of Gordon M. Shrum International Undergraduate Entrance Scholarship (full scholarship for eight semesters), 2001.

Young Scholars Initiative, Institute for New Economic Thinking: Young Scholar

BC Public Interest Advocacy Centre: Board of Directors

Vancouver and Lower Mainland Multicultural Family Services Society: Board of Directors

Progressive Economics Forum: Treasurer

Canadian Economics Association: Member

Canadian Women Economists Network: Member

Canadian Association for Business Economics: Member

BC Employment Standards Coalition: Member

Long Overdue: Why BC Needs a Poverty Reduction Plan

Towards a Fair Canadian Tax System

BC Should Eliminate the MSP. Here are two better options

Working Poverty in Metro Vancouver

Solving BC’s Affordability Crisis in Child Care: Financing the $10 a Day Plan

Working for a Living Wage 2016: Metro Vancouver Update

Iglika Ivanova is an economist and policy analyst with a decade of experience in analyzing Canadian labour markets and public policy. Her areas of expertise include BC and Canadian labour market issues, job quality, low wage work and living wages, poverty, income inequality, gender inequality, government finance, economic and social policy, and applying a gender and intersectional lens to public policy decisions.

In her role as Senior Economist and Public Interest Researcher at the BC Office of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, Iglika has produced high-impact research on key social and economic challenges facing Canada, and developed evidence- based policy proposals to build a more just, inclusive and sustainable economy. She is committed to sharing her policy expertise, analytical skills and proficiency with statistics with women’s organizations, anti-poverty advocates and immigrant-serving groups in the community. She regularly reviews community reports, policy briefs and articles, and assists with data analysis and interpretation.

Iglika is an active member of Canada’s associations of academic and professional economists (CEA and CABE) and engages these networks around gender and social justice issues. She is also a Young Scholar with the Institute for New Economic Thinking and a Treasurer of the Progressive Economics Forum. 

When she is not doing public policy analysis, Iglika spends time thinking about how to make our communities and workplaces more inclusive, collaborative and diverse. 
She volunteers on the Boards of Directors of a public interest law office in Vancouver and an immigrant-led agency that assists refugee and immigrant women experiencing domestic violence.

Poverty

Labour Economics

Income Distribution

Income Inequality

Living Wage Policies

Government Finance

Public Policy Analysis

Social Policy

Gender wage gap

Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

PolicyNote blog

UBC's Sauder School of Business' Jim Brander and Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives' Iglika Ivanova are guests on CBC Almanac to discuss raising the eligibility age for OAS and CPP.

Job generation remains bleak in B.C.’s vast rural regions

Rising costs of living weigh heavily on low income families

Victoria tops list for best cities for women in Canada

Opinion: B.C. move to eliminate medical services premiums would be fair, not complicated

The hidden epidemic of working poverty in Metro Vancouver

Is 10 dollar childcare possible for BC?

Women and precarity in the labour market

The hidden epidemic of working poverty in BC

The changing nature of work and its implications for inequality: evidence from Canadian provinces

What should BC’s economy look like in 2030?

Poverty and inequality among BC seniors: why we need to talk more about it.

Is the Canadian labour market generating high-quality Jobs?

Solving the affordability crisis in child care

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What is poverty costing us in BC?

We asked Iglika Ivanova, Senior Economist at the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, to share with us, and a few hundred of our friends, her wild idea to transform society. She did so at #WildIdeas event on February 13, 2015.

Mrs. Ivanova work investigates issues and trends in health care, education and social programs, and examines the impact of public services on quality of life. She also looks into issues of government finance, taxation and privatization and how they relate to the accessibility and quality of public services. Iglika’s other research interests focus on the Canadian labour market and in particular trends in income inequality, low wage work and the integration of immigrants. When she is not in the office, she can often be found swing dancing or sailing the coastal waters of BC.

She was one of five speakers at #WildIdeas to share with us their wild ideas to transform society. Hear more Wild Ideas:

Paul Kershaw: http://ow.ly/KHhVJ
Harsha Walia: http://ow.ly/KHihD
Ryan Meili: http://ow.ly/KHirx

To learn more about #WildIdeas and Changemakers Vancouver, visit: http://www.changemakersvan.com/

To learn more about the other partners, visit:
http://www.nextup.ca/
http://www.thinkupstream.net/

Iglika Ivanova: A Living Wage | #WildIdeas

Tamara Vrooman, President & CEO, Vancity
• Prem Gill, Chief Executive Officer, Creative BC, and Vice-Chair, board of directors, National Screen Institute
• Taleeb Noormohamed, Tech entrepreneur, formerly Vice President of Strategy and Partnerships at the Vancouver 2010 Olympics
• Iglika Ivanova, Senior Economist and Public Interest Researcher, BC Office, Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives

Moderator:
Janet Austin, CEO, YWCA Metro Vancouver, and former Chair, Greater Vancouver Board of Trade

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