Job Market Monitor

Au Québec, l’emploi a légèrement progressé (+15 000) en mai, alors qu’une hausse notable du travail à temps plein a été partiellement contrebalancée par une légère baisse du travail à temps partiel. En raison de la baisse du nombre de personnes à la recherche d’emploi, le taux de chômage a baissé de 0,6 point de pourcentage pour atteindre … 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 →

From 2011 to 2016, Canada registered the largest increase in the proportion of seniors since Confederation. This acceleration of population aging is the result of the first baby boomers reaching the age of 65. Today, Statistics Canada is releasing a second series of data from the 2016 Census on age and sex, and type of dwelling. The agency will release all 2016 Census … 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 →

We have found that “on‑the‑job” search is common among employed workers, and that the job search process is more effective for currently employed workers than for the unemployed. In the paper cited as the source of our table estimates, we also show that offers received by employed workers are better than those received by the … Continue reading →

Field-of-study mismatch occurs when a worker, trained in a particular field, works in another field. This study draws on the Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) to explore how skill supply and labour market demand dynamics influence mismatch. It updates cross-national estimates on mismatch and estimates the mismatch wage penalty. Findings suggest that around 40% of … 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 →

Immigrants are more likely than U.S.-born workers to be employed in a number of specific jobs, including sewing machine operators, plasterers, stucco masons and manicurists. But there are no major U.S. industries in which immigrants outnumber the U.S. born, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of government data. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read … Continue reading →