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Paul Maxim joined Laurier in 2006 as Associate Vice-President: Research. After completing his term in 2011, he joined the Laurier School of Business and Economics, Department of Economics. Maxim is cross-appointed between the Department of Economics and the Balsillie School of International Affairs, where he is currently Director of the Master in International Public Policy program.
Before coming to Laurier, he was Associate Dean of Research and Operations in the Faculty of Social Science and Professor of Sociology at the University of Western Ontario where he taught from 1981 to 2006.
Professor Maxim attended the University of Toronto where he obtained an Honours BA. Following that, he received an MA in Criminology from the University of Ottawa and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Pennsylvania. He has been a visiting scholar in the Criminology Institute at Cambridge University and in the Department of Economics at the University of Copenhagen, where he was awarded a residential scholar award by the National Bank of Denmark.
Maxim has numerous publications in the areas of population economics, social statistics and research methods and criminology. His most recent research focuses on the socio-economic integration of immigrants into Canadian society and on the formal labour force experiences of Canada’s Aboriginal peoples. He is also studying issues relating to educational attainment and human capital development among China’s minority peoples.
Maxim is willing to supervise students interested in pursuing projects in population economics, labour force participation and human capital development.
- Chen, B., X. Chen and P.S. Maxim (Eds.) (2012) Educational Anthropology. Beijing: Chinese Intellectual Property Press.
- Maxim, P and Gao X. (2012) 加拿大原住民与非原住民的收入差异＊“Income disparity among aboriginal and non Aboriginal Canadians,” Journal of Chuxiong Normal University, 27: 78-85.
- Maxim, P.S. (2011) 共同的挑战: 中国 加拿大原住民及少数民族教育政策 “Aboriginal and minority education policy in Canada and China: Common challenges.” Xueyuan (Academia), 5, 47-54.
- Maxim, P.S. and P.C. Whitehead (2008) Youth in Conflict with the Law (3rd ed.). Toronto: ITP Nelson.
- White, J.P., P.S. Maxim and N. Spence (2004) Permission to Develop. Toronto: Thompson Educational Books.
- White, J.P., P.S. Maxim and D. Beavon (Eds.) (2003) Aboriginal Conditions. Vancouver: UBC Press.
- Maxim, P.S., K. Keane and J. White (2003) “Urban residential patterns of Aboriginal people in Canada.” In Not Strangers in These Parts: Urban Aboriginal Peoples, edited by D. Newhouse and E. Peters. Ottawa: PRI.
- Maxim, P.S., J. White, S. Gyimah and D. Beavon (2003) “Earnings implications of person years lost life expectancy among Canada’s aboriginal peoples.” Canadian Studies in Population,30:271-95.
- Maxim, P.S., J. P. White, D. Beavon, and P.C. Whitehead (2001) “Dispersion and polarization of income among Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal Canadians.” Canadian Review of Sociology and Anthropology-Revue Canadienne de Sociologie et d’Anthropologie,38:465-476.
- Maxim, P.S. (1999) Quantitative Research Methods in the Social Sciences. New York: Oxford. Published in Spanish as Métodos Cuatitativos in 2002.