Job Market Monitor

Cet article interroge et confronte les notions de déclassement par rapport au diplôme (décalage défavorable entre niveau de diplôme et qualification de l’emploi) et mobilité sociale. Le déclassement qui sera privilégié ici concerne le lien direct entre niveau d’emploi et niveau de formation, compte tenu de l’expansion scolaire il aurait évolué vers un déclassement massif … Continue reading →

Recent evidence from large-scale field experiments has shown that employers use job candidates’ unemployment duration as a sorting criterion. In the present study, we investigate the mechanisms underlying this pattern. To this end, we conduct a lab experiment in which participants make hiring decisions concerning fictitious job candidates with diverging unemployment durations. In addition, these … Continue reading →

Quel que soit le niveau de qualification, les salariés sont nombreux à exprimer la volonté de se former dans les 5 années à venir. Par exemple, 72% des employés de commerce souhaitent se former, soit autant que les cadres (cf. Tableau 1). Dans l’ensemble, le souhait de se former est très lié à celui de … Continue reading →

Au Québec, 28 000 personnes de plus étaient en emploi en juin, et le taux de chômage est demeuré à son plus bas, soit 6,0 %. L’emploi dans la province a nettement progressé par rapport à 12 mois plus tôt, augmentant de 122 000 (+3,0 %). Extraits choisis par le Moniteur de l’emploi . Lire la suite @ Le Quotidien — Enquête sur la population active, juin 2017

“It is getting harder to find students that will work,” says Toby Wolf, director of marketing at the boardwalk. “Each year it’s getting harder and harder. None of us has been able to pinpoint why. Is it a change in society as a whole?” The numbers are not encouraging. Forty years ago, nearly 60% of … Continue reading →

However, participation rates are only one part of young people’s experience of the labour market. A second major factor is whether youth are able to find employment once they enter the workforce. The youth unemployment rate varied widely from 1946 to 2015. Relatively low until the mid-1950s, it climbed 5.9 percentage points from 1956 to … Continue reading →

L’Ontario fera passer son salaire minimum à 15$ l’heure d’ici 2019 dans le cadre d’une  réforme des lois du travail, qui élargira également le droit à des congés payés en plus d’abolir l’écart de rémunération entre employés à temps plein et à temps partiel. La première ministre Kathleen Wynne en a fait l’annonce mardi, dans … Continue reading →

Minimum wage policy attracts an enormous amount of attention in the United States. Between January 2014 and July 2015, the effective minimum wage in- creased in 26 states, and as of January 2015, 75% of Americans supported an increase in the federal minimum wage to over twelve dollars per hour. Researchers have responded to this … Continue reading →

As the work landscape changes, the educational landscape has to adapt as well. Just in time for graduation (which will likely bring a flood of resumes to recruiters’ inboxes), here are a few majors that probably didn’t exist when you were in college—and why they’re relevant to the growing workforce: 1. Robotics Engineering What: Bachelor of … Continue reading →

Millennial workers, those ages 18 to 35, are just as likely to stick with their employers as their older counterparts in Generation X were when they were young adults, according to recently released government data. And among the college-educated, Millennials have longer track records with their employers than Generation X workers did in 2000 when … Continue reading →

In 2016, wages for low-wage workers rose faster in states that increased their minimum wage than in states that saw no minimum wage increase. 17 states and the District of Columbia (shaded green on the map) increased their minimum wage through legislation, ballot measures, and indexing last year. The remaining 33 states did not increase … Continue reading →