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Michel Cournoyer
Graduates’ Career Planning – What behaviours, factors and characteristics determine graduate outcomes?
The study examined a cohort of UK domiciled students who completed their full-time undergraduate study in 2011/12 and were aged 18-21 at the outset of their study. The cohort consisted of 7,500 students drawn from 27 institutions. This study combined data from the 6 month Destination of Leavers from Higher Education (DLHE) survey with data … Continue reading
Skills Policy at Local Level – Learning Lessons from Abroad for UK
Evidence was drawn from the USA, Canada, Australia, Belgium (Flanders), and Sweden. All have skill systems and models of local governance that reflect their unique historical development. But this does not preclude learning lessons from their experiences that can inform the process local areas in England are embarking upon. Enabling effective local working is dependent … Continue reading
US – Labor force participation is too low, JPMorgan CEO Jamie Dimon says
Labor force participation is too low. Labor force participation in the United States has gone from 66% to 63% between 2008 and today. Some of the reasons for this decline are understandable and aren’t too worrisome – for example, an aging population. But if you examine the data more closely and focus just on labor … Continue reading
Canada – Individuals with lower levels of education save less for retirement
Using two new datasets that link survey respondents from the 1991 and 2006 censuses of Canada to administrative tax records, this paper assesses the extent to which education affects how Canadians save and accumulate wealth for retirement. First, using descriptive analysis, this study finds the following: Across groups of individuals based on their highest level … Continue reading
France – Pour une majorité d’employeurs, les compétences des salariés s’acquièrent moins par des formations organisées que par l’exercice du travail
Pour une majorité d’employeurs, les compétences des salariés s’acquièrent moins par des formations organisées que par l’exercice du travail. Le dispositif Defis permet de montrer que les salariés inscrits dans les dynamiques de travail les plus porteuses d’apprentissages informels sont également ceux qui accèdent le plus à la formation organisée. Ce constat est particulièrement marqué … Continue reading
The disconnect between growth and employment (video) – ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook: Trends 2017
Growth continues to disappoint, both in terms of its level but also in terms of its ability to make important inroads to making growth more inclusive. The ILO’s World Employment and Social Outlook – Trends 2017 highlights the challenges for the coming year in jobs and the labour market. Chosen excerpts by Job Market Monitor. Read … Continue reading
Refugees in Germany – Vocational language training is the most effective
In 2015 and 2016, an estimated total of 1.2 million people arrived in Germany to ask for asylum. Although Germany had already experienced large inflows of asylum seekers in the early 1990s, the current situation is different not only in its scale, but also because many asylum seekers come from countries where the perspective of … Continue reading
Active Labour Market Policy (ALMP) in Developing Countries – Far less effective than policy makers, program participants, and economists typically expect
Jobs are the number one policy concern of policy makers in many countries. The global financial crisis, rising demographic pressures, high unemployment rates, and concerns over automation all make it seem imperative that policy makers employ increasingly more active labor market policies. This paper critically examines recent evaluations of labor market policies that have provided … Continue reading
Environment – The greening of economies will require a mix of macroeconomic, industrial, sectoral, labour market and skills policies
The greening of economies through public and private investments in the context of sustainable development and poverty eradication will require a mix of macroeconomic, industrial, sectoral, labour market and skills policies. These investments in the formal and informal sector will create and enable sustainable enterprises to prosper. Paying close attention to skills development for the transition to environmentally … Continue reading
Around 40% of workers are mismatched by field, trained in a particular field, works in another field, research finds
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
Talent War – Employers across the globe are facing the most acute talent shortage since the recession, according to the latest Talent Shortage Survey
● Forty percent of employers globally report difficulties filling jobs due to lack of available talent ● More employers than ever are filling talent gaps by training and developing their own people – this number has more than doubled since 2015, from one in five to over half Employers across the globe are facing the … Continue reading
US – Who is winning the race for jobs between robots and humans?
Last year, two leading economists described a future in which humans come out ahead. But now they’ve declared a different winner: the robots. The industry most affected by automation is manufacturing. For every robot per thousand workers, up to six workers lost their jobs and wages fell by as much as three-fourths of a percent, … Continue reading
Les travailleurs en formation liées à l’emploi au Québec – Le Québec toujours cancre du Canada
Extraits choisis par le Moniteur de l’emploi de Tableau D.7.1 Taux de participation des travailleurs adultes1 à des activités de formation officielle liées à l’emploi, selon le sexe, le groupe d’âge, le niveau de scolarité et la province, 1997, 2002 et 2008 tiré de Indicateurs de l’éducation au Canada : manuel pour le rapport du Programme d’indicateurs pancanadiens … Continue reading
Education in Canada, 2015-2016 – 97% of 15-year-olds were attending school, 24% of 19-year-olds were in college and 36% of 21-year-olds were at university
From 2004/2005 to 2014/2015, the proportion of full-time elementary/secondary teachers under the age of 30 decreased, while the comparable proportion of teachers 60 years of age or older increased. This is in line with what has been observed in Canada more generally, namely that the Canadian population is aging and that the older generation is increasingly postponing retirement. During this same time … Continue reading
Apprentis au Canada – Ceux qui ont terminé leur programme étaient plus susceptibles de se trouver un emploi
La forte croissance économique relativement constante depuis 2000 et les pressions démographiques comme le vieillissement de la main-d’œuvre ont contribué à la demande accrue d’ouvriers de métiers qualifiés. Malgré le déclin qui a suivi la récession économique de 2008 et 2009, le nombre de nouvelles inscriptions aux programmes d’apprentissage a augmenté de près de 200 % … Continue reading
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