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L’Emploi au Québec (Juillet 2025) – Une perte nette de 15 000 emplois
En juillet, le marché de l’emploi au Québec a enregistré une perte nette de 15 000 postes, effaçant une partie des gains réalisés le mois précédent (+23 400). [O]n constate que le marché du travail québécois demeure relativement vigoureux pour les travailleurs dans la force de l’âge (25 à 54 ans), avec un taux de … Continue reading
US – Population of Older Adults Now Comparable to Population of Children
From 2004 to 2024, the age 65-and-over population increased in size while the child population decreased. Source: Population of Older Adults Now Comparable to Population of Children
AI in US – How the public and experts view it
The public and experts are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI. But they share similar views in wanting more personal control and worrying regulation will fall short. Key findings A diverging bar chart showing that AI experts more likely than the public to say AI will have a positive effect on the … Continue reading
AI jobs in Canada – A steady increase from 2018 to 2021, with AI-related job postings reaching their peak in Q4 2021 and a slowdown onwards.
AI labour market demand: steady expansion followed by a slow down The demand for AI professionals in Canada experienced a steady increase from 2018 to 2021, with AI-related job postings reaching their peak in Q4 2021, with a slowdown in the demand of these postings from Q1 2022 onwards. The demand for professionals with these … Continue reading
Skills-First Approaches – A comprehensive, multi-stakeholder strategy
Talent shortages in the tech sector pose significant challenges for firms, workers and governments, hindering productivity, innovation, job satisfaction and economic growth. To address these shortages, this report emphasises the importance of a comprehensive, multi-stakeholder strategy based on innovative policy actions. This includes adopting skills-first approaches to hiring, which prioritise specific skills over traditional qualifications, … Continue reading
Vulnerable Groups – An analytical framework for Active Labor Market Policy (ALMP)
People from vulnerable groups face considerable challenges in securing sustainable employment due to factors such as limited labor market experience and various forms of discrimination. While active labor market policies (ALMP) have been implemented to address these challenges, they have not sufficiently improved sustainable employment outcomes for these groups—possibly because of inadequate consideration regarding how … Continue reading
Germany’s EV Transition – Current macroeconomic policies undermine it
The electric vehicle (EV) transition portends wrenching change in Germany’s export-dependent economy, with potentially severe job losses in core occupations in the automotive industry and a drastic restructuring of employment in and outside automotive supply chains. The EV transition is made even more challenging by the growing competition from Chinese (EV) producers, both in China … Continue reading
ILO’s World employment and social outlook (2025) – Strong headline employment indicators hide persistent structural weaknesses on global labour markets
This report provides an in-depth analysis of global labour market trends, highlighting the impacts of slowing economic recovery, persistent youth unemployment, and gender disparities. It examines the structural challenges facing workers worldwide and offers insights into regional and global patterns shaping the future of work. For the first time, it offers an analysis of subnational … Continue reading
Offshoring form US Companies – Just over 30%, a 3 percentage points higher than seven years ago, or a 10% increase
US-based employers expanded employment abroad faster than domestically for the past 7 years. This is particularly pronounced among Tech and Consulting firms. Highly remote-suitable roles have grown 42% faster outside the US than within the US since 2019, while there is no difference in growth rates for roles that are not remote-suitable. Cost saving considerations … Continue reading
Future of Jobs Report 2025 – Broadening digital access and Increasing cost of living are expected to be the most transformative trends
Technological change, geoeconomic fragmentation, economic uncertainty, demographic shifts and the green transition – individually and in combination are among the major drivers expected to shape and transform the global labour market by 2030. The Future of Jobs Report 2025 brings together the perspective of over 1,000 leading global employers—collectively representing more than 14 million workers … Continue reading
COVID-19 in US – A growing divide
The most significant pandemic of our lifetime arrived as the United States was experiencing three major societal trends: a growing divide between partisans of the left and right, decreasing trust in many institutions, and a massive splintering of the information environment. COVID-19 did not cause any of this, but these forces fueled the country’s divided … Continue reading
State Employment Service and Unemployment Insurance in US – Staffing policy
Experience teaches us that the resolution of contested public policies is often delayed by public officials until events force them to act. The swirl of political winds sometimes challenges long-standing policy no matter how useful or wise. Both of these axioms of public administration are revealed in the federal tug-of-war over merit staffing policy—the requirement … Continue reading
Temporary Resident and the Labour Force Survey in Canada – The growing underrepresentation of NPRs in the LFS highlights a fundamental limitation of the survey
Statistics Canada’s Labour Force Survey (LFS) underestimates the rapidly growing non-permanent resident (NPR) population. This undercount potentially distorts important economic indicators, such as nominal wage growth and unemployment rates, because NPRs disproportionately influence these measures as a growing share of new labour market entrants. To address this data gap, this E-Brief recommends revising the LFS … Continue reading
Labour and Skills Shortage in EU – An index by CEDEFOP
Cedefop’s Labour and Skills Shortage Index (LSSI) aims to provide a standardised measure of occupational shortages that can inform decision-making regarding workforce and learning needs in the European Union. Three pillars are identified and measured as potential drivers of future labour shortages, namely demand, supply and supply–demand imbalances. Demand uses the estimated pressure exerted … Continue reading
AI Skills for Teachers – A competency framework from UNESCO
There are significant implications of artificial intelligence (AI) for education, teaching and learning, and for teachers’ roles and competencies. Indeed, AI can process vast amounts of information and text far beyond any human capacity and can produce new content across the range of symbolic representations of human thinking, identify patterns in data presented in various … Continue reading
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