Alexandre Genest
Research
Interests
Research interests
Alexandre
was born and raised in Montréal, Québec, and received an M.A in
Demography from Université de Montréal in 2000. The focus of his
master's research was on the retirement income of Canadian seniors. Upon
graduation he was hired by Social Development Canada, a Canadian federal
department responsible for state pensions, where his work delved mostly
on policy issues related to seniors and older workers. He entered the
Public Administration doctoral program at Syracuse University in August
2004. Alexandre states, "I chose Syracuse mostly for the opportunity to
work with both Douglas Wolf and Timothy Smeeding on retirement issues,
but also for the possibility to acquire knowledge from a critical mass
of scholars interested in Aging issues. From this general interest in
Aging issues, I can pinpoint a few core areas for my future research:
processes of retirement and processes of aging, governments' efforts to
encourage caregiving over institutionalization, the
interaction/conflicts of pension policy with caregiving policy, the
social consequences of poverty in old age, and older workers' attachment
to the labour force."
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