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Michel Cournoyer
The Future of Work – What do we want ? (video)
Highlights from award-winning economic historian Robert Skidelsky giving a keynote address about the future of work with remarks by ILO Director-General Guy Ryder.
The future of work – The major trends
Gender gap in participation rates is not expected to improve over the coming 15 years Few countries combine an environmentally sustainable footprint with decent work Declining labour force participations rates will exacerbate demographic changes Migration is likely to intensify in the future as decent work deficits remain widespread Global supply chain related jobs go well … Continue reading
Talents – The force changing demand and supply
CHANGES IN THE DEMAND FOR TALENT Six of the forces we identified are having a profound effect on the demand for talent. (See Exhibit 2.) We categorize them into two groups: Technological and digital productivity: automation, big data and advanced analytics, and access to information and ideas Shifts in ways of generating business value: simplicity in … Continue reading
Automation in China – Delivery firm is moving to embrace it (video)
Orange robots at the company’s sorting stations are able to identify the destination of a package through a code-scan, virtually eliminating sorting mistakes. Shentong’s army of robots can sort up to 200,000 packages a day, and are self-charging, meaning they are operational 24/7. The company estimates its robotic sorting system is saving around 70-percent of … Continue reading
Salaire minimum dans l’UE – Les minimums mensuels inférieurs à 500 euros à l’Est et largement supérieurs à 1000 euros dans le Nord-Ouest
Au 1er janvier 2017, 22 des 28 États membres de l’Union européenne (UE) appliquaient un salaire minimum national: seuls le Danemark, l’Italie, Chypre, l’Autriche, la Finlande et la Suède n’en disposaient pas. Les 22 États membres de l’UE qui appliquent un salaire minimum national peuvent être répartis en trois groupes en fonction du montant en euros … Continue reading
Recognition Of Migrants Skills, Knowledge And Competence – The ambivalence of competence recognition systems
An adequate incorporation of migrants in the labour market, able to fully unleash their potential, is a major challenge for EU development. In this direction, the recognition of migrants skills, knowledge and competence acquired in formal and non/informal contexts represents a crucial issue. Based on a comparative research work conducted at European level, it considers both … Continue reading
Social Media – Does its use contributes to employability and sociality ?
The information age and proliferation of new media pose new questions and dilemmas. Research indicates that the proliferation of social media has widened a participation gap, also known as the digital divide, which affects mainly the low skilled and the low educated, because they are not media literate enough, to use digital information in an … Continue reading
Social Welfare Policies in US – Certain encourage more people to work
Certain social welfare policies, according to an emerging body of research, may actually encourage more people to work and enable them to do so more productively. That is the conclusion of work that aims to understand in granular detail how different government interventions affect people’s behavior. It amounts to a liberal version of “supply-side economics,” … Continue reading
Artificial Intelligence (AI) – The three new categories of AI-driven business and technology jobs
The threat that automation will eliminate a broad swath of jobs, across the world economy is now well established. As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become ever more sophisticated, another wave of job displacement will almost certainly occur. It can be a distressing picture. But here’s what we’ve been overlooking: Many new jobs will also be … Continue reading
Automation around the World – 1.2 billion full-time equivalents and $14.6 trillion in wages
Today, about half the activities that people are paid to do in the global economy have the potential to be automated by adapting demonstrated technology. As we’ve described previously, our focus is on individual work activities, which we believe to be a more useful way to examine automation potential than looking at entire jobs, since most … Continue reading
Automation in Australia – More than five million jobs, almost 40 per cent, have a moderate to high likelihood of disappearing in the next 10 to 15 years
More than five million jobs, almost 40 per cent of Australian jobs that exist today, have a moderate to high likelihood of disappearing in the next 10 to 15 years due to technological advancements, a CEDA report being released today has found. Figure 1 shows the estimated probabilities of the susceptibility of jobs to computerisation … Continue reading
Job Vacancies in Canada, Q4-2016 – Up 6.3% with job vacancy rate at 2.4%
Job vacancies rose 6.3% from the fourth quarter of 2015 to 375,000 in the fourth quarter, following little year-over-year change in the third quarter. Meanwhile, the job vacancy rate increased 0.1 percentage points to 2.4%. Compared with the third quarter of 2016, the number of job vacancies (unadjusted for seasonality) fell by 6.6% in Canada, while the job vacancy rate decreased by 0.1 percentage points. These quarter-to-quarter … Continue reading
Aging Workforce in US – A 10% increase in the fraction of the population ages 60+ decreases the growth rate of GDP per capita by 5.5% research finds
Population aging is widely assumed to have detrimental effects on economic growth yet there is little empirical evidence about the magnitude of its effects. This paper starts from the observation that many U.S. states have already experienced substantial growth in the size of their older population and much of this growth was predetermined by historical … Continue reading
Registered Education Savings Plan (RESP) in Canada – An account at age 15 is associated with higher postsecondary enrolment rates by age 19
The registered education savings plan (RESP) investment vehicle is designed to encourage parents of school-age children to save early for their children’s education. This study investigates RESP investments in families, by family income, and subsequent postsecondary enrolment among children in these families. The study finds that among families with children under the age of 18, … Continue reading
Public Employment Service in US – USDOL has neglected strengthening the partnership with Unemployment Insurance research finds
The Employment Service-Unemployment Insurance (ES-UI) partnership is rooted in permanent authorizing statutes, an identical fund source, common rules for state administration, and interdependent practices to guard against improper payments and expose claimants to suitable job openings. This partnership is central to the success of the public workforce system. Over the past several decades, USDOL has … Continue reading
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