Job Market Monitor
Michel Cournoyer
Euro area – Unemployment at 10.1%, 4.276 million young persons unemployed in the EU28
The euro area (EA19) seasonally-adjusted unemployment rate was 10.1% in July 2016, stable compared to June 2016 and down from 10.8% in July 2015. This remains the lowest rate recorded in the euro area since July 2011. The EU28 unemployment rate was 8.6% in July 2016, stable compared to June 2016 and down from 9.4% … Continue reading
Australia – Employability Skills Training Consultation Paper
In the 2016-17 Budget, the Australian Government announced an $840 million Youth Employment Package to give young people the employability skills and real work experience they need to get a job. The package will deliver a new Youth Jobs PaTH (Prepare – Trial – Hire) to support young job seekers into jobs. The Youth Jobs … Continue reading
UK – What has driven the growth in apprenticeships?
The number of apprenticeships started in England each year has almost tripled over the past decade. The Conservative Government sees apprenticeships as a tool to increase national productivity and improve the wage and employment prospects of individuals. It has launched an ambitious reform agenda to deliver 3 million apprenticeships by 2020 – up from 2.4 … Continue reading
Women’s Labour Market Participation – The Canada–U.S. gap
Substantial increases in the labour force participation of women are a striking feature of the labour market developments in most Western nations. While the growth in participation began at different times and has advanced at different rates, the quantitative changes in the North American labour market over the past three decades have been remarkable. According … Continue reading
Trial Periods in New Zealand – No evidence of increased employment beyond the trial period
In March 2009, an amendment to the Employment Relations Act (2000) came into effect that introduced 90-day trial periods in employment for firms with fewer than 20 employees. A worker new to a small firm could be hired on a trial period, and for the first 90 days of his employment the legal requirements for … Continue reading
US – Black workers in particular may have suffered more widespread wage losses
Census Bureau data shows that median earnings for full-time, year-round workers dropped from by nearly 3 percent for men and 1 percent for women between 2009 and 2014. While new data from the Labor Department shows that wage gains have accelerated over the past two years, that trend is only beginning to make up for … Continue reading
US – Union boost to nonunion pay has weakened
Pay for private-sector workers has barely budged over the past three and a half decades. In fact, for men in the private sector who lack a college degree and do not belong to a labor union, real wages today are substantially lower than they were in the late 1970s. In the debates over the causes … Continue reading
Youth Unemployment – A systematic review of what improve labour market outcomes
This systematic review investigates the impact of training and skills development, entrepreneurship promotion, employment services, and subsidised employment interventions on the labour market outcomes of young women and men. The systematic and meta-analysis is based on evidence from 113 counterfactual-based impact evaluations of 107 active labour market programmes in 31 low-, middle- and high-income countries. … Continue reading
Muslim Immigrants in Western Europe – Terrorist attacks harms integration
The recent rise in the number and intensity of fundamentalist Islamic terrorist attacks occurring in several Western cities could, as it has in previous situations, inflame an aggressive socio-political atmosphere against Muslims. How does this affect the integration of Muslim immigrants? An IZA discussion paper by Ahmed Elsayed (IZA) and Andries de Grip (Maastricht University … Continue reading
Young People in EU – What are they doing ?
The European Union (EU) totals almost 90 million people aged 15-29, representing 17% of its population. These young people are in very different situations, with education and employment patterns varying considerably between Member States and by age group. Between the ages of 15 and 29, a clear and significant shift occurs from the world of … Continue reading
Job Vacancy in Canada (first quarter 2016) – Declined by 72,000 (-17.9%)
There were 328,000 job vacancies among Canadian employers in the first quarter, and the job vacancy rate was 2.1%. Compared with the first quarter of 2015, the number of job vacancies declined by 72,000 (-17.9%), and the job vacancy rate decreased by 0.5 percentage points. Job vacancy rate declines in most provinces and territories From the first quarter of 2015 to the first quarter of 2016, … Continue reading
Minimum Wage in US – Only 5 percent of all employers believe the federal minimum wage ($7.25 per hour) is fair
Three-quarters of Americans (75 percent) are living paycheck-to-paycheck to make ends meet, according to a survey from CareerBuilder. Thirty-eight percent of employees said they sometimes live paycheck-to-paycheck, 15 percent said they usually do and 23 percent said they always do. While making ends meet is a struggle for many post-recession, those with minimum wage jobs … Continue reading
The work test for unemployment insurance (UI) recipients – Reduced time to reemployment by 1–2 quarters for permanent job losers
The work test for unemployment insurance (UI) recipients has been a central part of UI in the United States since the system began in the 1930s. In general, to be eligible for UI benefits, a claimant initially needs an adequate work history and must have lost her job through lack of work and no fault … Continue reading
Tomorrow’s Jobs – Explore the world of work in 2025 by The Future Laboratory and Microsoft
Explore the world of work in 2025 in a revealing evidence-based report by future consultants The Future Laboratory and Microsoft, which identifies and investigates ten exciting, inspiring and astounding jobs for the graduates of tomorrow – but that don’t exist yet. Virtual Habitat Designer By 2025, virtual habitat design will offer some of the most … Continue reading
Employability – Education and training systems, labour markets, workers and workplaces will have to become more adaptable OCDE’S report says
Skill requirements are changing rapidly as a result of structural shifts 1. The speed and nature of globalisation, technological change and innovation, changes in work organisation, environmental change and demographic trends take very different forms across G20 countries. But in all of them, they are affecting what kind of work is done, who carries it … Continue reading
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