Joshua Gordon

Josh Gordon is an Assistant Professor at the School of Public Policy. He completed his PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2012 and joined the School in August of 2014.

His doctoral research focused on the politics of labor market policy and the welfare state in the advanced industrialized democracies. It looked specifically at the postwar role of union movements in the evolution of unemployment benefits and employment protection legislation (hiring and firing rules). Subsequent work has turned that research into publications, including two articles in Socio-Economic Review.

His recent research has focused on the Canadian housing market, especially the housing markets in Toronto and Vancouver. Reports in 2016 and 2017 documented the roots of the affordability crises in these cities and made the case for policies that were subsequently adopted by provincial governments, including foreign buyers taxes and the Speculation and Vacancy Tax in B.C. This research has been turned into a forthcoming paper in Canadian Public Policy, and is being turned into a book manuscript on the Canadian housing market.