Job Market Monitor
Michel Cournoyer
Getting more girls and women into STEM education and careers
Despite significant improvements in recent decades, education is not universally available and gender inequalities persist. A major concern in many countries is not only limited numbers of girls going to school, but also limited educational pathways for those that step into the classroom. This includes, more specifically, how to address the lower participation and learning … Continue reading
Workplaces in US – Gallup data reveal an unsettling pattern
There is an urgency for leaders to define and convey their vision more clearly — and rally employees around it. Gallup data reveal an unsettling pattern in the U.S. workplace. Employees have little belief in their company’s leadership. We have found that just: • 22% of employees strongly agree the leadership of their organization has … Continue reading
School-to-Work Transition – 5 main types of regimes
This report presents the comparative overview of the school-to-work (STW) transition pathways, structures and related effectiveness in eight countries : Estonia, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, Turkey and the UK. In addition, France was reviewed where possible as representing a particular Continental STW transition model. We have applied the Pohl and Walther’s typology of … Continue reading
Global Human Capital Report 2017 – The Top 10 countries
Efforts to fully realize people’s economic potential – in countries at all stages of economic development – are falling short due to ineffective deployment of skills throughout the workforce, development of future skills and adequate promotion of ongoing learning for those already in employment. These failures to translate investment in education during the formative years … Continue reading
Working Time in Europe – 42% expressing a preference for a change
Working time is a recurrent topic of study because the nature of work, its content, the conditions under which it is performed and the labour market itself keep changing. These changes have an impact on working time duration and the way working time is organised. One of the manifest results is the erosion of a … Continue reading
HR – CEOs’ selected strategies for meeting the Human Capital challenge
CEOs know that meeting their most urgent business growth challenges is inextricably linked to the strength of their human capital base. Effective use of human capital resources remains a critical issue for our respondents, and their strategies to improve productivity center on developing talent from within, improving leadership skills and pipeline, and building a performance … Continue reading
UK – The distinction between self-employment and employment is becoming harder to sustain
This paper looks at way to close the divide between employment and self-employment. SUMMARY The distinction between self-employment and employment is becoming harder to sustain. Even on 2012/13 tax data from HMRC, a third of those reporting income from self-employment also report income from employment. Those two categories themselves simplify and often distort a much … Continue reading
Canada, Recensement de 2016 – Les provinces de l’Atlantique et le Québec avaient les revenus médians les plus bas
Le revenu total médian des ménages canadiens est passé de 63 457 $ en 2005 à 70 336 $ en 2015, en hausse de 10,8 %. Les provinces de l’Atlantique et le Québec affichaient les revenus médians les plus faibles au Canada tant en 2005 qu’en 2015. Toutefois, les investissements dans le secteur des ressources au cours de … Continue reading
Canada, 2016 Census – 10.8% increase in median total household income in 10 years
The median total income of Canadian households rose from $63,457 in 2005 to $70,336 in 2015, a 10.8% increase. Today, Statistics Canada is releasing data from the 2016 Census on the incomes of Canadians. This release presents incomes of Canadians as measured in 2015, and looks at trends over the 2005-to-2015 period, a decade of significant income growth and economic change. Chosen excerpts by Job Market … Continue reading
Janitors at Two Top Companies – 35 years between their jobs
Gail Evans and Marta Ramos have one thing in common: They have each cleaned offices for one of the most innovative, profitable and all-around successful companies in the United States. For Ms. Evans, that meant being a janitor in Building 326 at Eastman Kodak’s campus in Rochester in the early 1980s. For Ms. Ramos, that … Continue reading
Employment in Europe – Higher-paid jobs have continued to grow faster
During 2016, employment in the EU finally returned to the same level as before the global financial crisis. The recovery that began in 2013 has resulted in the net creation of eight million new jobs. Most of this net new employment has been created in services, but there has also been a marked rebound in … Continue reading
The Future of Work – Erica Groshen, former head of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics on
There is growing attention being paid to the future of work, and concern that changing work relationships—for example, independent contractors, contract agency workers, gig workers, app-based workers, etc.—are evolving faster than BLS can develop the tools to measure. How has BLS considered collecting data to document these forms of work? The main thing BLS has … Continue reading
Gender Diversity – Technology can promote it
BCG analyzed technology’s potential in aiding companies’ gender diversity efforts and concluded that technology can help in both short-term and long-term ways. In the short term, companies can use technology to support specific types of diversity interventions. Longer term, women who develop expertise in digital will be positioning themselves for leadership roles in the many … Continue reading
Methods to Anticipate Skills Demand – Different methodological approaches
Skills imbalances are largely the result of failures that characterize the education and labor markets. First, individuals and training providers frequently make decisions based on incomplete information on the returns from each investment. Second, there is a lag between the time when individuals make training decisions and when they enter the workforce. In addition, as … Continue reading
Working Poors in the EU – Policy attention should rather be on minimum household income
The working poor are a substantial group in the overall poverty statistics and are estimated to constitute 10% of European workers. This report examines in-work poverty in the European Union, picking up where a previous Eurofound report on this subject, published in 2010, ended. It looks at how in-work poverty evolved in the aftermath of the financial crisis of 2008, based … Continue reading
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